100 Years of Periods | Allure

This video with over 1M views takes us back in time and to the present of that 'dreaded time of the month'. You thought you had it bad now. Check out what it was like then...

Take a look back at the last hundred years of menstruation products, from the homemade cloth pads of the 1910s and the sanitary belts of the 1940s, to the adhesive pads of the 1970s and the new super absorbent tampons of the 1980s.

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