See the fax
tampon and the almost identical tampon Nunap
sold probably about the same time, both
probably made of Cellucotton, the component
of Kotex.
See other marketing devices: Ad-design contest for
menstrual products in the United Kingdom; "Your Image is Your
Fortune!," Modess sales-hints booklet
for stores, 1967 (U.S.A., donated by
Tambrands, 1997)
See early tampoms Wix
and Dale and a bunch of other
earlier ones.
See some Kotex items: First ad
(1921) - ad 1928 (Sears
and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller ads
(first real person in amenstrual hygiene ad,
1928) - Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for
girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are
many links here to Kotex items) - Preparing for
Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls;
Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in
Spanish showing disposal
method - box
from about 1969 - "Are
you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) -
See more ads on the Ads
for Teenagers main page
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B-ettes menstrual tampon (U.S.A., about
1939)
tampon
Just as with the roughly contemporary Fibs tampon, from
Kotex, the string penetrated the side
of the tampon (not visible in the scan,
below).
Procter & Gamble kindly donated the
box and contents as part of a gift of
scores of menstrual products.
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The tampon measures
2.25" (5.7 cm) long and 0.75" (2
cm) in diameter; the knotted
double string is 3.5" (11 cm)
long.
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Companies packaged
tampons in different
ways in the 1930s, just
as they do today; some
came individually
wrapped (LOX),
some wrapped in bunches
(Wix,
fax),
and
some loose, above (12 to
a box).
Coincidentally, listen
to my examples: all end
in an s
or x
sound, just as the major
brands of pads of the
era did, Kotex and
Modess.
The box measures 2.5" x
4.125" x 1.5" (about 6.5
x 10.5 x 3.7 cm).
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