"graham" wrote in message news
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.
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Ahh I see what you mean. Yes, in those days that is what happened, but did
they actually call them, diapers?

If that were the case I am sure it would have filtered down.