It took me aaaaages to realise what this baffling advert was referring to. How mentally draining it must have been being a woman in the 1940s...and how annoying when there were LOADS of very Un-coy adverts about really gross things in nearly every issue of The Orcadian:
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| Flatulence! |
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| Eww Warts! |
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| Constipation! |
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| "It just decays in your bowels..." |
How are the words 'sanitary' and 'towel' worse than 'wart', 'bowel' or the phrase 'two pints of bile flowing freely'?
Give me a roaring woman jumping out of a plane any day.
All adverts taken from 1947 editions of The Orcadian
I'm only 48, but my mum insisted I start with a sanitary belt and hooped pads (in about 1980). Oh, it was just AWFUL. They were huge, and the stigma. I squirm just thinking about how intrusive it all was... Thank heavens things are so much better
ReplyDeleteTime was when nice girls didn't use tampons! I started with the belt and pads, too. UGH. I'm glad I'm old enough I don't have to deal with that any more. Now I have other problems. Hah!
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