Period pants for Wimpund

[PeriodPants]

Wise vipers of Mumsnet, forgive the relatively trivial topic but I am in the market for a stack of period pants and would very much like to give my custom to a company that unashamedly promotes its products to Wumben/Wimpund/Woomud.

I've had a look at some well known brands' websites using a quick ctrl+f for "wom" and, astonishingly, am coming up pretty empty.

I had enough trouble finding a tampon brand to switch to so any advice on particular brands of pants would be much appreciated.

Uniqlo? Mine are from there and are good.

I think they have always been a bit unisex but not in a woke boundary pushing gender-upholding way more in a genuinely sexless way?

Happy to be corrected if they are raving insanios like Lush...

I tried looking into this and ended up buying from a company who refer to “women, girls, trans-men”… at least we get a mention!

Modibodi?

I just bought some from Wuka. Their website says the pants are for women, girls and trans men. They have good photos of real women (different shapes, ages, skin colours) and some of the blog posts talk specifically about women

Repentant Thanks, I'll keep them in mind. At this point I'm annoyed enough to reject even that and opt for active woman-centring if such a thing can be found!

FortySeven That is very reasonable. If I hadn't been pushed to the edge of my sanity by so much nonsense up to this point, I'd probably think that was a fair enough compromise. I would like to see if I can infer a sneakily GC copyeditor at any of these companies to support, though!

WhiteCatmas Modibodi does look promising! Thanks

@WhiteCatmas

Modibodi?

Oh yes they look good. The founder describes herself as 'a social advocate for women’s health issues and rights'

Omg, I had no idea. This is just gross. what ON EARTH are these companies doing?

I’m not sure about modibodi. They are pretty careful not to mention women, ive just scrolled through their insta to see if they had changed and nope. There is modibodi_men account but on the main modibodi page mostly only mention ‘women’ when it’s on a quote from customers. There are a couple in the last few months which might be an improvement but also plenty of carefully neutral language and ‘people who menstruate’ …. I messaged them about this sometime last year and here was their founders response. They do do some great things though.

Yeah Modibodi went woke, sadly :(

I’m fairly sure the primark ones are in the ‘women’s underwear’ section?

I’m fairly sure the primark ones are in the ‘women’s underwear’ section?

Primark studiously avoid mentioning women in any period pants marketing.

Tu from Sainsbury's prominently advertise that their underwear is designed by women, for women and it's described as 'ladies knickers'. They seem quite a stark contrast to every other brand.

ladies knickers Love it!

Do Tu do period pants though?

Luxury Moon is a woman owned business which sells period pants, menstrual cups, reusable pads etc.

I’ll check what mine are. They are some Chinese brand - they don’t mess about with ‘oooo these items are, ummm for persons… alto be used at a particular time of the month… when, um, persons that need them, use them’.

‘Woman’s period pants’ was the description I think.

It’s like playing the word game…

I get my tampons from here - www.getrael.com. They don’t seem to mess about and do pants.

I went with Wuka in the end, no problems but make sure you order size according to your measurements, not dress size. I went with dress size and they were too small. Thankfully wuka exchanged them. Also the higher the absorbency the tighter the pants feel.

Sainsbury's, if you are watching, I need new period pants. Hurry up already.

‘Woman’s period pants’ was the description I think.

Mind you, that is a bit of an oxymoron!

Sainsbury do stock them

tuclothing.sainsburys.co.uk/c/brands/love-luna

@FortySeven

I tried looking into this and ended up buying from a company who refer to “women, girls, trans-men”… at least we get a mention!

Which one was that? I'm avoiding Modibodi because of a "menstruator" incident but I'd be happy with a brand that pitched itself at "women, girls and transmen".

My personal line. Doesn't have to be anyone else's.

I've got Sainsbury's ones and also ones from Amazon (Innersy? Something like that) that are referred to as womens/girls.

The world is a very weird place that this is even an issue.

Good timing, OP. In the market for more period pants. Sainsbury's! Fab, will give them a bash. The MS ones were less comfy than Modibodi, fwiw.

GetRael was looking very promising with shocking talk like, "most women will have their periods for forty years of their lives", and, "Almost 20 percent of women between the ages of 18-50 experience vaginal dryness".

However, I just looked at one of their blog posts which informed me that, "many menstruators will openly talk about physical symptoms".

"Menstruators".

Thanks for the Sainsbury's suggestions. I bought some ordinary knickers from there recently after M&S went downhill (in terms of quality of pants and the other) and I've been really impressed with them so may give those a go!

PurgatoryOfPotholes Yes, rationally I know and accept that it's a very reasonable, and I'm sure genuinely inclusive, line for companies to take while so many are experiencing distress over their female bodies in one way or another.

I suppose I was just looking for a unicorn of a company that's looked at the whole thing and said, "nah, we'll keep our marketing as it was, cheers"!