Dr White's looped sanitary towels

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I didn't know these were still a thing!
DM used to buy these for me when I first started my periods in the 70s.
Saw some today on the shelf in my local chemist while I was hanging around waiting for my prescription to be dispensed.
I was tempted to buy some: remember them being so soft and comfortable .Didn't see any of those belts to wear with them, though.
Set me wondering: does anyone use looped towels these days?
Must be a market for them if they're on sale.

Nikini - the plastic went hard and jabbed into you. Horrible

Wasn't it just?
I'd forgotten about the ghastly incinerators in the school loos though ...

I was scared of the incinerator in the girls' toilets.

It was noisy and hot and.....just scary.

Here you go, TheMustress

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Luckily I was a fat kid so the belt fit but I remember Abigail who was normal sized constantly dangling a bit of belt next to the knee high shit brown socks we had to wear.

God, yes, I remember them - and it's not a good memory!
We weren't allowed to go swimming when we had our periods. I absolutely hated the weekly sommer term school excursion to the swimming baths and the shout "miss,I've got my period" got me out of that particular horror - every week
From my mum - no lilettes(how do you spell that?) etc. allowed. They broke your hymen (apparently) and no man would marry you

Fuck.

Kotex New Freedom.

The knickers were so uncomfortable.

They didn't become popular because the first sticky pads came out at the same time.

I remember them from Judy Blume too - Margaret buying 'Teenage Softies' . They were still available but on their way out by the time I started having periods in the 80s. Before 'wings' became a thing, sticky pads weren't the greatest as they'd ruche up in the middle, so I can see why women might have preferred the looped kind, but I never tried them as my main concern was to disguise the fact I was having a period at school - for some reason I was acutely embarrassed about it. Thankfully my periods have left the building now!

I remember being sent to the local chemist to get them for my mother. I was given a note which I handed over to the sales assistant, she then produced a pack of towels which were wrapped in brown paper and kept under the counter. Such a shameful thing had to be hidden. Seems mad now. This was late 50s or very early 60s.

The people (who still exist, by the way) who go on about hymens have very limited comprehension skills - and would best be placed in a secure room and left there indefinitely.

Oh my goodness, so many unpleasant memories resurfaced reading this thread! My mother called sanitary towels ‘doofers’, tampons were unmentionable and ‘damaged your virginity ‘, and as for the brown paper bags and smelly incinerator 😳☹️
I was a 60’s teenager, hated periods with a vengeance from the start and was so thankful for a hysterectomy at 33 years old. Dysmenorrhea and flooding from day one was a misery. My mum went berserk when she ‘discovered ‘ ( by rooting through my bag) that i’d been prescribed the pill as a student nurse who couldn’t take several days of a month for crippling dysmenorrhea.
Thank goodness it’s all very different now!

I started in 84. I mainly used the stick on pads but used to use two of the looped ones wedged into my pants on heavier days. I had no idea there was supposed to be a belt though.

Hammocks is what they were!
DM was 35 when she had me, so definitely an older mum. She bought me the whole kit and kaboodle when I started my periods at 11, so still in Primary school.
So bulky, uncomfortable, embarrassing and, yes, smelly! I didn’t know any better until I went to Secondary when I soon got her to buy me stick-ones. But even those were bulky, like 2cm thick!
I think micro thin pads started about 1985.

I remember the school nurse having the ‘chat’ with us when we were still in primary school and showing us some of the products we could use- I distinctly remember these looped sanitary towels. Would have been early/mid 90’s. Never used one though.

Me too 1forsorrow ! The embarrassment handing a note over the counter to the male shopkeeper. I did this at a very young age, probably around 1958 onwards....

My mum used these. When I was about 4 I found them in the bathroom airing cupboard and asked, she muttered something and the only work I recognised was blood.

So next time I fell over and grazed my knee I helped myself to a soft comforting bandage, had to hold it on as it kept falling off (even at 4 I could tell this was a serious design flaw) and hobbled down to show my mum how clever I was. She was in the middle of having coffee with friends..........

I started my periods in 1989 and my Mam gave me these bloody awful Dr Whites and a belt. They were absolutely awful. The belt twisted all the time and when changing them I could never find the bit at the back to attach the pad to. I think my Mam had always used them and I remember her saying she didn't believe the sticky ones would stick and they'd end up falling out!
I can't remember how long I used them for. It can't have been that long as I then switched to stick ons. I can't remember what brand I had but it wasn't Always as I remember switching to Always later and finding them great in comparison to the previous sticky ones.

Anyone remember Libresse? They were two layers, you could use the top layer on its own on light days.

I’m an older mum, too. I had DD at 38 but I made sure she had all the stick on options available, and tampons, from her first period.

BTW does anyone remember early stick on pads “shredding” inside their covers?
Yu-uck .

I think my Mam had always used them and I remember her saying she didn't believe the sticky ones would stick

My mum had been using tampons since the 1960s and she didn't trust sticky pads - doubt she'd ever used them herself, it was the idea she distrusted - her solution was to give me safety pins to pin them into my pants! I did this once or twice before I realised they would actually stay in place.

Ewwwwwww

I remember so were meant to be flushable, you basically had to tear them up and flush away bit by bit!

I started in the late 70's and a new thing were Vespre sanitary towels, they were meant to be slim but still seemed huge to me at 11.

I used sanitary towels with a belt for years. Not brilliant at all and huge so very obvious in your satchel and shoved up your sleeve at school. My mum wouldn't let us use tampons when they were around because it would stop us being virgins and also we weren't allowed to wash our hair during our period because we would catch cold. I do not remember when I defied her and started using lillets which I bought myself, pro when I got a Saturday job at Boots. I started my periods in 1970 I think. I've used all sorts of sanitary protection, nothing very good for my heavy painful periods. Thank god for menopause

I thought Bodyform were amazing when they first came out, with their contoured design. Odd to remember how thick pads were back in the 1980s.

@sargent yes! Gross