On 2018-01-29 8:31 AM, S Viemeister wrote:
> On 1/29/2018 9:31 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>
>> I have never heard of that. We always called them 'towels'.
>>
>> Have we ever called them 'diapers'?
>>
> I've never heard sanitary towels called diapers.
AIUI, STs were invented during WW1 by nurses near the front.
My father told me that in our grandmothers' time, before STs became
widely available and cheap enough, women washed their diapers every month.