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Originally posted by Amos:
Mark, you are much older than I had previously thought. Sanitary towels (attached with safety pins to a sanitary belt) were in use throughout all but the most isolated fenland villages sixty years ago.
Bear in mind I speak from what I've been told but also as a 9th generation (one time) farm labourer from the same village. In South Cambs the old ways were still around, I'm told, into the 60's and beyond.
FWIW I'm just 60!
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Originally posted by ExclamationMark:
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Originally posted by Amos:
Mark, you are much older than I had previously thought. Sanitary towels (attached with safety pins to a sanitary belt) were in use throughout all but the most isolated fenland villages sixty years ago.
Bear in mind I speak from what I've been told but also as a 9th generation (one time) farm labourer from the same village. In South Cambs the old ways were still around, I'm told, into the 60's and beyond.
FWIW I'm just 60!
Mind you it was hardly talked about ...it's only in later life that I've hard a bit more
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In my rural childhood, (the Cambridgeshire uplands), churchiung was routine.
It linked into the folk beliefs of people wedded to the grind of agricultural work and issues of cleanliness/purity in an era of primitive female hygiene. Much of it was very primitive indeed - rough calico straps passed under the legs to contain the blood. They were held on by a spencer belt - the origin of today's "suspender belts," a rather different form of under garment.
Local belief, for example, meant that girls who were "ill at ease" (ie menstruating) would not be allowed to churn milk to make butter. It was believed they'd spoil the milk.
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Sanitary towels in the 1950s and 60s came with loops to link to the sanitary belt, which had anchor like hooks front and back to connect the two together. (We were shown this as part of a girls only sex ed lesson: it was what was available at school as emergency supplies. By the 70s and 80s no-one had the requisite belts as things had moved on.) Hence the stories of boys trying to wear them over their heads anchoring the loops over their ears.
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Gill H
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I started secondary school in 1978 and had those horrible pants!
Claire Rayner and the ‘wings’ were later.
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Brenda Clough
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There's a Museum of Menstruation somewhere, that has a collection of all these vintage protection methods.
Menstruating women were also alleged to be able to keep meats from curing properly and ruining the fermentation of wine and beer. I cannot think why if this was believed to be so that no one ever thought to weaponize this trick. The movie script almost writes itself, does it not? A squadron of very PMSsy women in combat gear, surly as they are despatched into enemy headquarters with maps to the kitchen and wine cellars, their packs stuffed with sanitary napkins...
[ 05. February 2018, 13:17: Message edited by: Brenda Clough ]
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Enoch
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Yes, Brenda Clough. One would have though the militant wing of the Anti-Saloon League would have thought of that one.
[ 05. February 2018, 18:15: Message edited by: Enoch ]
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Thurible
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Originally posted by betjemaniac:
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Originally posted by Enoch:
I don't know if it's still done anywhere.
IIRC the wife of a poster on here was churched within the last year or two. I won't name them but I only know because they posted to that effect the last time this came up on here.
Indeed. Mrs Thurible was churched after giving birth to the boatboy in 2016 and after the boatgirl in 2013. On each occasion, it was on the day she went to Mass for the first time.
I think the boatgirl was born on a Wednesday (or was it Thursday) so less than a week. Unfortunately, having given thanks for safe delivery of the event, Mrs Thurible had a massive DVT 11 days post-partum. So the boatgirl, who had gone home twelve hours after being born, then spent a week in hospital with her mother.
After the boatboy, she was again churched. He was born late on a Saturday and so she went to give thanks for safe delivery a week later. Given that she'd been on medication for DVT throughout this pregnancy and had nonetheless had a couple of minor DVTs, the thankgiving was most definitely heartfelt.
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Gee D
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Thank you Thurible for your moving post - with prayers and best wishes to the 4 of you.
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[welcome back, Thurible!]
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