Earlier Kotex tampons: Fibs
(started 1930s) and Nunap
(early 1930s).
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921;
scroll to bottom of page) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog)
- Lee Miller ads
(first real person in a menstrual 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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Kotex Comfortube menstrual tampons,
1967, U.S.A.
Tampon
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Note that the flowers also appear on
the paper encasing the tampon.
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The tampon is 5" (c. 12 cm) long.
The applicator seems to be a coated
cardboard.
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The plug (absorbing part) measures
1.75" x 0.5" and the string, 4", which
seems short. Look at the break in the
tube, at right. It apparently holds
the two tubes together by pushing the
little flap into the break in the
second tube. Seems crude.
Boy, was it hard pushing the tampon
out! I hope that was just the effect
of age; I'd pity the woman trying to
get the thing to "fire."
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See the box and main page. Earlier
Kotex tampons: Fibs
(started 1930s) and Nunap
(early 1930s).
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