Sanitary napkin shaped for use with a thong garment

A feminine sanitary pad having one or more absorbent layers for use in absorbing menstrual fluids of a female wearer of the pad, said pad specifically adapted and configured to fit externally of the vaginal opening of said female wearer and completely within the confines of a thong-shaped garment being worn by said female, said garment having a narrow elongated crotch portion of material which extends in substantially uniform width from the crotch up the back of the garment, said pad to be positioned within said garment to extend upwardly along the inside/front of said thong garment, from a lowermost position starting just rearwardly beyond the lowermost portion of the vagina of said female, the configuration of said pad being an overall v-shaped in plan view, and bulbed at a first top end having a predetermined width, and tapering therefrom longitudinally to a midportion, and from there longitudinally narrowing in an elongated lower end portion terminating in a second end, remote from said first end, said lower end portion having a substantially uniform width, being less than twenty-five per cent of the width of said bulbed first end portion and being less than the width of the narrow elongated crotch portion of the thong garment, and a length greater than one third, but less than one half the total length of the pad from longitudinal end to end.