Tour the former Museum of
Menstruation in my house.
Belt topics
See how women wore
a belt (and in a Swedish ad). See a modern belt for
a washable pad and a page from the 1946-47 Sears
catalog showing a great variety - ad
for Hickory belts,
1920s? - Modess belts
in Personal Digest (1966)
See a Modess True
or False? ad in The American Girl
magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley in
"How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad
(1955) - Modess . . .
. because ads (many dates).
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Norwegian exhibit about menstruation &
the company history
of the Scandinavian tampon and menstrual pad
company
SCA Mølnlycke
Oh, OK, I guess you
want a translation.
My Norwegian is rusty, but here goes:
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(This is from a local Norwegian
newspaper called
Samhold, 3 October 1995, sent to
me by Merethe Slensvik of the
Libresse company.)
Big words:
The Pad in the Form of a
Joke
(The joke's the red part; I
added the red):
"One of
the more common blonde jokes is,
for example, Why are there 10
dead blondes lying at the foot
of a high apartment building in
Stovner? They had tried Libresse
with wings."
This
edition of the paper had a whole
page devoted to the menstruation
exhibit, and this vitse (compare
the English word wit) had a
little section by itself at the
lower left.
I taught myself to read
Norwegian fairly well (and a few
other languages) while I lived in
Europe. If someone arrived from
Mars and had to learn a language,
English and Norwegian would be the
easiest to learn, in spite of
English pronunciation and
spelling, as much as it hurts
English speakers to hear this!
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