2007-10-27 22:58:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Women's Health
they used whatever they could. pillow cases (cut up)
feed sacks, newspapers, old bonnets, old clothes,
2007-10-28 11:43:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They used to use rags around the house. This is where the term "on the rag" came from. Back in my grandmothers day, they used old towels around the house. (I remember visiting her one year, and I didn't have any pads when I needed them. I actually had to use a towel until I went into town to buy some pads).
Before my grandmother's time, they used to use scraps of old material not needed anymore. This could include old clothes, bedspreads, curtains (remember they had thick curtains back then), etc.
And yes, all of these from the towels, to the other material had to be washed (and remember, many did not have access to the modern washing machine). :-0
2007-10-28 07:33:31 · answer #2 · answered by mardix27 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Back in the early 1900s, people would use either washcloths tucked into their underwear or they would use this special strap on pad that looked ridiculous.
In some cultures, women would eat their period blood or the males would and in other cultures, the women would make pads out of bird feathers and mud/clay.
2007-10-28 06:47:53 · answer #3 · answered by ~Jennifer~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever heard the term for a girl ( on the rag) they used to use rags from old clothes and such and just roll them up and put them in their underware. That is where that term came from.
2007-10-28 06:02:54 · answer #4 · answered by Mary B 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well my grandmother didn't have any pads at that time so she told me that at her time women would kinda stuff either towels or rags in their underwear to soak up the blood and then wash it away
2007-10-28 07:17:02 · answer #5 · answered by sweetea 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats where the term rags comes from, they used to use torn up linen in some countries the women would go in to seclusion and men are not allowed to see them. they also had a crude form of tampon.
2007-10-28 06:03:34 · answer #6 · answered by dramaqueen 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They had these belts from what I was told and shown, that had an absorbent pad/towel. That is what my grandma showed me.
2007-10-28 06:01:26 · answer #7 · answered by Mom of 2 great boys 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You heard of the Jamaican exclamation ' blood cloth'!? mmhmn!
2007-10-28 14:29:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with momof2... I have heard of stories that women had to wear belts to hold it up
2007-10-28 11:36:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
towels rags .. i mean they needed something .. butt for one thing couldnt it have been the men who got periods and not ladies god i hate it . lol
2007-10-28 08:59:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently they had towels which they had to wash (ugh!!) just like babies used to wear towelling nappies that mothers had to wash.
2007-10-28 06:01:11 · answer #11 · answered by ozinnz 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋