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Janet

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> On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:31:57 -0500, S Viemeister
> > wrote:
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> >On 1/29/2018 9:31 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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> >> 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.
>
> There was the colloquial 'rag' -

They were literally, strips of cloth which women folded, used and,
washed and re-used. Before WW2 my grandmother, mother and aunts all
used rags, until it was easy and affordable to obtain commercial
disposable pads.

Janet UK