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See
German open-crotch underpants
(Unterhosen) for attaching a menstrual pad (1888,
drawing).
"Bikini"
underpants from the 1912 Olympics (photo at bottom of page).
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
German sanitary panties, pads,
o.b. tampons, "massage" rod
from the Neckermann mail order catalog,
probably 1970s
Also, cardboard insert
for Hygimona Monatsslip (sanitary panty)
Below: The
reduced page offers sanitary panties (more),
incontinence panties, menstrual pads, material for
menstrual pads, o.b.
tampons, key chains (!), massage devices
for the face (ha!) and breasts, and
incomprehensible stuff for hair.
Enlargements lie
below.
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Below:
Sanitary panties (more)
and underpants for incontinence.
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Below:
Adhesive menstrual
pads, mini pads, o.b. tampons, and
material for menstrual pads.
O.b. started in Europe,
allegedly developed by Judith Esser.
Later, the American company Johnson &
Johnson
bought it, a company having a long history in
American menstrual circles.
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Below: For a
short break from the catalog look at the
cardboard insert for a package of sanitary
panties - menstrual underpants.
"Kritische Tage"
is German for what appears in many languages:
critical days,
days during menstruation.
The catalog
resumes below.
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Below:
"Supplies pleasant blood
circulation" reads the caption for
the suspiciously
shaped battery-powered object
right below. The Frau, about to
burst into laughter (or something
else), is thinking of her
circulation somewhere else.
Read
how a woman researching knitting
magazines
stumbled on (the larger ones) ads
in early 20th-century magazines
that betrayed a long history of
midwives and doctors, um, pleasuring
women in need of relief, maybe
from what was called hysteria.
Actually, the word hysteria
comes from the ancient Greek for uterus
and during orgasm the uterus does
contract in spasms. This can
propel the blood and tissue out
into the vagina and the wide, wide
world - or onto the pad or
into the tampon
or menstrual cup or sponge. Or
into free fall as some
women do and did.
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Below:
I wonder if the device at right
came as a twofer with the vibrator
at left for a lower price.
The text says it tones and forms
[breasts] in a natural way.
Do water breast massagers grow
under trees?
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Various underpants,
panties, 1928 (page from Sears, Roebuck and Co.
catalog, U.S.A.)
Step-in underpants, Hickory,
1928 (ad from Vanity Fair magazine, U.S.A.)
Variety of underpants from the Savage
catalog, 1930, U.S.A.
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