Below is half of a Personal Digest booklet from 1966, published by Personal Products, the part showing sanitary napkin belts offered by Modess. The sanitary belt and panty industry in the United States almost disappeared in the early 1970s because of the introduction of adhesive pads , which stick to the crotch of panties with an adhesive strip. Millions of women breathed a sigh of relief. But Kotex reintroduced a disposable panty recently, I'm sure in response to a real need. Menstruation is unexpected and messy.
Men are lucky in many ways.
Companies and catalogs sold scores of kinds of belts from at least the last century to the present day . Here are some belts the museum owns. See belts and pads on mannequins at MUM, actual belts in this museum, Hickory -brand belts, sanitary panties offered by Modess in the 1960s, and Underwear in the Directory . It is illegal to reproduce or distribute any of the work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author.