See an ad for Confidets
in the year it appeared, 1961, its booklet
for girls, World of
a girl.
See some pad dispensers and
ads for pads that
come with pouches: New Freedom and Whenever, from the
U.S.A., and Camelia,
from Germany.
Look at disposal bags
found in public toilets around the world.
See how women wore a belt (and in a Swedish
ad).
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Confidets:
the first contoured pads? The
first pad sold with disposal
bags? (1967, U.S.A., Scott Paper
Company)
Consumer Reports magazine wrote
that American women preferred
Confidets to all other pads in
1978, according to Nancy Friedman
in her book Everything
You Must Know About Tampons
(Berkley Books, New York 1980; Ms. Friedman praised this museum),
shoving aside the more famous
Kotex and Modess. The reason might
have been the tapered shape -
women have more room at the front
of the vulva for a pad - and the
disposal bags; both may have been
firsts in the industry.
Scott Paper Company created the
brand in 1961 - see an ad for
it from that year - but
discontinued it in the 1980s. Read
its booklet for girls, World of a
girl.
See some pad
dispensers and ads for pads that come
with pouches: New
Freedom and Whenever,
from the U.S.A., and Camelia,
from Germany.
Look at disposal
bags found in public
toilets around the world.
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The absorbent part
of the pad is about 8" (20 cm)
long.
See why
the tab in front is shorter than
the rear tab.
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According to the
yellow sticker, the box of 12 of
the above pads cost $1.15,
probably on or about 1967, the
copyright date on the box.
Below,
the back of the box.
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The box,
above, bears a copyright of 1967.
Below: a later
Confidets, showing the
narrowing more clearly. See why
the tab in front is shorter than
the rear tab.
Later, Confidets came in unbelted
varieties that stuck into panties
with adhesive strips. Confidets
disappeared in the mid 1980s.
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See more ads
for menarche-education booklets: Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday
(Kotex, 1933), Tampax
tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol
Lynley), and German o.b. tampons
(lower ad, 1981)
See also the booklets
How shall I
tell my daughter? (Modess,
various dates), Growing up
and liking it (Modess,
various dates), and Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday
(Kotex, 1928).
And read Lynn Peril's series
about these and similar booklets!
See another ad for
As One Girl to Another (1942), and
the booklet
itself.
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