"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
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>> my grandmother would sew a pad that looked similar in shape to the
>> modern day ones but they had a tab on each end to pen to the
>> underwear or later a belt... they had cotton sewn and quilted, then
>> my grandmother would boil them in lye soap. sounds hidious but it
>> seems everyone survived it... odd to think of talkng of what my mom
>> used as a young girl and now i don't need any of that sort of thing
>> anymore, lol, Lee
>
> God I hated those sanitary belts with those metal tabs, and as someone
> else said in another newsgroup, "those pads that were about the size
> of a twin mattress." Glad to be rid of all that myself. :-)

Or surfboards some here called them.