See 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, 1970s)
And read Lynn Peril's series
about these and similar booklets!
See more 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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Carefree Teens colored pantyliners,
Personal Products, U.S.A., about 1990
Personal Products (U.S.A.) made the
panty pads below, about 1990,
violating a tradition in the
mainstream menstrual products
industry: Use
White. I find it especially
amazing that the side pressing against
the vulva has a colored
pattern, which raises the
question of the body's
absorbing the dyes. But
"alternative" products, such as contemporary
washable
pads, have used colors for
years, reducing the medicinal feeling
of such products and making them more
friendly.
I think the company felt the
teenagers would be more willing to use
such pads, kids being kids, but the
product disappeared forever from the
shelves very quickly.
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