Re: Those mystery things on your website, was Re: I have a new machine

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 23:33:24 GMT, RLK wrote:

>> I hope no one is offended by what I'm going to say, but they look like
> garters for a woman's "time of the month". I'm not THAT old, but I do
> remember them. The garters get hooked onto a kind of belt or girdle.
> 
> Here is a link, tell me what you think.  See the safety pins?
> Sanitary Napkin Belts
> http://www.mum.org/belthick.htm

Well, ain't that site a mine of information!?

Strange that it seems to be collated by a bloke, but nice to know someone
is archiving this 'secret' history, given the amount of ignorance and fear
girls stiff suffered from while I was growing up. I am only 40, but I had
school friends who weren't allowed to water plants while they were
menstruating, because the plants would die, or cook food, because it would
be tainted and all the rest of that superstitious nonsense.

:) Trish