Welcome to Period Pieces, our journey through the bizarre and beautiful cultural history of menstruation. Inspired by #throwbackthursday, we serve up our favorite ads, images, and factoids about periods throughout the ages.

Before there were adhesive-backed disposables, there were.... belts. Some of our older readers may even remember using these! Even younger readers have likely heard of belted sanitary napkins from the coming-of-age classic Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume.

This is an Australian ad from 1956, announcing the launch of Kotex belts in fashion-forward WHITE.

[caption id="attachment_3257" align="aligncenter" width="221"]kotexbelt Via http://www.mum.org/belts.htm[/caption]

While I think I would be very, very grumpy if I had to wear a belt for my period, I kind of dig this ad. The packaging in the lower right looks so fancy and pretty!

Would you ever wear a Kotex belt? In white?

 

 

About the author of this post:

tracypuhl is the owner of GladRags and is passionate about period positivity and empowering women everywhere. When she’s not in the office, you might find her attempting to run a faster 10k, traveling, practicing yoga, or pointing out how cute her cats are being right now.