Excerpt from
the puberty booklet Growing
Up
and Liking It about how to fasten
a pad to a belt and about sanitary panties
& a funny story from the 1969 booklet.
Booklets
menstrual hygiene companies made for girls,
women and teachers - patent
medicine - a list
of books and articles about menstruation - videos
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The Museum of Menstruation and
Women's Health
Kotex
pad, mini & maxi &
beltless pad, stick &
heavy duty tampons, pantiliner
ad
July 1978
Glamour magazine, U.S.A.
You - no,
don't look behind you!
- YOU
are lucky!
No
belts, no pins, no nuthin'!
Wait a second, unless you take
hormones nuthin' is somethin'
although it's less than what your
mothers and grandmas dealt with.
Hope you can figure that out.
Kotex
made tampons probably before Tampax
did and helped chase belts that
held pads from drugstores, a
blessing for most women in the
guise of sticky-back
pads.
This ad nicely shows what Kotex
offered in 1978, a
lifetime-and-a-half ago for many
of you.
See the rich
ladies Kotex zeroed in on,
their servants'
kids, all
kids, early
Kotex tampons with no
applicator (and for you "moderne"
women), Kotex
belts and stick
tampons.
See too an American
booklet (1928) and a page
from a Spanish-language
booklet with pad disposal
drawings, both from Kotex.
And see the method
for fastening the 1941 Modess
pads.
See many menstrual
pad belts
and photos of
how they were worn in a Dutch ad
and a Swedish
ad.
I thank the donor!
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Below:
The ad probably measured 8 1/2 x
11" (21.6 x 28 cm) before the
margins were cut.
Early Kotex ads, and from many
other companies, presented blacks
only in subservient
roles, certainly not as much
higher-status interviewers
(at bottom left). But a Tassette
tampon ad in
the decade before
shows an African-American woman in
a magazine aimed at blacks, Ebony.
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Excerpt
from the puberty booklet Growing Up and
Liking It about how to
fasten a pad to a belt and about
sanitary panties and read
a funny story from this 1969
booklet.
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