Images of the Depression in our common memory include breadlines, tar-paper shacks, sharecroppers, hobos and migrant mothers. Only rarely do they include the goddesses of the silver screen, wearing slinky satin evening gowns, sipping martinis and smoking cigarettes -- Jean Harlow, Claudette Colbert, Katharine Hepburn, Carol Lombard. Their curve-clinging dresses were made possible by the invention of the tampon.
Loved your post today about something I know almost nothing about. Thanks. RD