The rise of period pants
It was December 2020 and Janet (not her real name), a 53-year-old IT consultant from Edinburgh, was doing her weekly shop in the Sainsbury’s closest to her house. In went the toilet roll, meat and vegetables. She wheeled her trolley on to the feminine hygiene aisle and saw a pair of period knickers. They were £12.
Janet frowned and considered. She had heard about period underwear; a friend raved about her Thinx. Janet had even been on the Thinx website, but the cheapest pair, with delivery, were more than £30. “It was quite a lot of money if I didn’t like them,” she says. She was doubtful that the knickers would even work for someone who was perimenopausal and had recently gone back to using sanitary towels for the first time since she was a teenager because she found it too uncomfortable to wear a tampon.
Janet tossed a pair into the trolley. “I thought: £12 is not that extortionate. I’ll buy one pair and give it a go,” she says. “It was very much an impulse buy.” At home, she took them to the bathroom sink and dribbled water on them, “just to have that confidence that they’d absorb the liquid.” She watched, astonished, as the knickers absorbed the fluid entirely. Then she got back in her car and drove off to buy another pair. She has never looked back.
“I was really sceptical at first,” she says. “I thought I’d put a pair on and have to change them, as you would a pad. But there’s no odour and there’s no dampness. And it feels cleaner as well.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/01/the-rise-of-period-pants-are-they-the-answer-to-menstrual-landfill-and-womens-prayers
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I have no need for such now, but would have considered them. However, they're godawfully expensive, and I'd have needed quite a few for my long, heavy periods.
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