I remember women buying these sanitary towels in my local corner shop, which was actually on a corner come to think of it, they'd sidle up to the counter and whisper 'a packet of Dr Whites please'. It all seemed very mysterious to me when I was a child.
I started my periods in the summer of 1962. I learned what Dr Whites were and about the belt that they hung from and, god, were they awful.
I don't know if I was doing something wrong, but I found that every time I leaned forward the towel would gradually slip backwards leaving it halfway up my back and allowing blood to seep out past the front of the towel onto my knickers.
Awful, awful things. The fact that the belt was made of elastic didn't help as it just stretched every time you moved.
Stick on ones seemed like heaven by comparison. Although, having said that, I never got the thinking behind the whole 'wings' thing. As far as I could see, it just allowed blood to seep down the side on your legs.
Can't believe a shop still stocks them. They must have been sitting on that shelf for years. Chemist shops can be funny places though, a lot of small chemist shops seem to stock things you never see anywhere else. There must be some weird specialist chemist shop suppliers somewhere that only those shops know about.