See Pad-n-all, a similar pad with
belt from about the same time.
 
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Compad, a single compressed menstrual pad with belt,
U.S.A., after 1943 & before 1963
The Procter & Gamble Company kindly donated Compad to MUM.
Harry Finley created the images.
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Below: The band
after I uncompressed it. Without stretching it's 44.5" (113 cm) long,
almost
4 feet - but it does stretch a little (a 1" section stretched
to 1 1/8") - and about 1/4" wide (about 6 mm).
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Below: Close-up of the band
with ends. The specks on the black background
came from the belt.
The band looks like cotton to me.
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Below: FINALLY, the pad
in all its glory! No, the arrows don't come with the
pad; I added them to cleverly
indicate how the band (above) snakes through the loops. Yes, yes, the band
could go in the other direction.
The cotton filling when flattened is about
6" (15 cm) long, 2 3/4" (7 cm) wide and 3/4" (1.9 cm) thick.
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