Up until recently...like the late 1960's, women didn't need underwear to
deal with the products used during their cycles. Belts and rags were the
choice of the day.
Since skirts were worn by women, and their smocks, shifts, chemises were
long enough to protect their dresses from any body dirt, along with
petticoats, you don't really need underwear.
But then men didn't really wear much in the line of underwear for the most
part either. Their shirts would have been breeched up around their knarly
bits to protect the inside of their breeches.
Weird practice though, to my modern eye...why would you give up wearing
underwear? Men were wearing braies very early on in history...why give them
up?
Ahhh! Fashion...it's a fickle thing!
Kelly
Since, I am a newbie when it comes to period underwear. What did women do
during their monthly cycles? And why was it more common for men to wear
underwear and not women?
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