Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
I love learning about where traditions, practices, and pop culture phenomenons were born. It’s often not where you’d expect – I definitely wouldn’t have have guessed for these 7 things that are now considered cool…but grew out of bad circumstances.
#7. Disposable pads
Disposable pads first appeared in the late 19th and early 20th century when the people who had been manufacturing absorbent cloth for wounded soldiers decided they could make additional cash by adapting it to save women a bunch of loads of bloody laundry.
#6. The “bob” haircut
Historically, only certain types of women dared to wear their hair short – those who earned their own living, or the poorest of the poor who had to sell their own locks to survive, or even those with illnesses like typhus – but with the advent of WWI, nurses jumped on the “bob.”
As anyone who works in an unpredictable and often messy environment (or stays home with a toddler) can tell you, long hair just gets in the way.
#5. Instant coffee
If you’re a coffee snob, you may think instant coffee is an abomination. You probably wouldn’t be so picky if you’d suffered through the economic crisis of the 1930s, though, when the world market price per pound of coffee beans fell from 22 to 5 cents.
Coffee…
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