See the Modess
teaching guides covers (1962 and 1973)
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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The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health
Teacher's Kit
for Modess sanitary napkins, menstrual
tampons and panties (1968), U.S.A.
Educational
Portfolio on Menstrual Hygiene
Almost complete
Starting probably in the late 1940s,
companies like Modess, Kotex,
Pursettes, Tampax made, and sometimes
still make, kits
for schools, enabling
teachers to use the material to
explain menstruation and puberty to
American girls - today, sometimes also
to boys - and let the captive audience
see their products, hoping they will
use them for life; they often did.
Sometimes the companies also supplied
films, such as the famous one from
Walt Disney.
I thank a Texan for this great
Christmas present!
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Below:
the cover of the portfolio that
contains the material in the following
pages. Folded, it measures 8.5 x 11"
(21.5 x 28 cm). The girl on the cover
stars in Growing
up and liking it (1964).
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