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:

>.......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. .......

   HMMM -- when I saw the photo of these things, I wondered about this.  I'm
old enough that I DID have to use one of those lovely saniatary napkin belts
and hated them!  Of course, the "hook part was shaped like a regular garter for
hosiery but had a sharp point right in the center of the loop that the pad end
was put through.  This is what anchored the material of the pad and kept it in
place.  
   How old are the "items" under discussion?  IIRC, the original poster said
they came from her DGMs stash -- is that correct?  My Granny said that her
generation used rags kept specifically for that pupose and they were safety
pinned to something to keep them in place.  
  I can see safety pining these pretty little embroidered ribbon gizmos to your
undies and then putting the ends of the rag sanitary pads through those
triangle shaped metal parts and pinning the end to itself.  That way you
wouldn't have to keep pinning stuff to your undies and possibly makes holes
that you would just have to repair!!  CiaoMeow >^;;^<
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