More Modess: 
1927 Gilbreth report to Johnson & Johnson
about Modess  
newspaper ads 1927-28  
"Silent Purchase" ad, June 1928  
ad, 1928  
"Modernizing Mother" ads: #1, February
1929 ("Mother . . . don't be quaint");
#3 April 1929 ("Don't weaken, Mother");
#5, June 1929 ("Never mind, Mother, you'll learn")
 
ad about concealing pad, 1930  
ad compared with Kotex ad, 1931  
ad, 1931  
wrapped Modess pad for dispenser, 1930s? Ad, U.K., 1936  
True or False? ad in The American Girl magazine,
January 1947  
Australian ad, 1957  
ad (1956) with "Modess . . . . because"
ad incorporated into it  
ad for "Growing Up and Liking It" booklet
(1963, Modess)  
actress Carol Lynley in "How shall I tell
my daughter?" booklet ad (1955)  
Modess . . . . because ads (many dates) - French ad, 1970s?  
ad, French, 1972, photo by David Hamilton Personal Digest leaflets (6), 1966-67: describe Modess
products  
How Modess Sanitary Napkins Began: excerpts from"A
Company That Cares: One Hundred Year Illustrated History of Johnson and
Johnson"
Panties: Modess "Sanitary
Shield" (two-band pad holder in crotch; 1970s; U.S.A.) 
Modess "Panti-kini" (two-band holder
to hold pad in crotch; 1960s-1970s, U.S.A.)
   
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
Personal Digest 
Folder showing Modess products, 1967,
U.S.A. 
Personal Products Company
tampon, pad, sanitary napkin, panty, panties, brief, belt, menstruation,
menstrual cycle, period  
women, Coets, Meds, Vee-Form
 
 
Below:  
Click on the small pictures to see enlargements.
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Below: Coets sure sounds like coeds,
the (former?) name for women who attended  
institutions of higher learning with men.
But say it again. It's close to Kotex,
isn't it, 
Modess's rival since the 1920s in America? 
I wonder if that was deliberate.
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NEXT | Meds tampons
(U.S.A. and elsewhere, box and tampon, 1967, Personal Products Company)
- Meds (box & tampons, 1940s-1950s?) -  
pamphlet introducing Meds to the world (1930s)
- Meds box & tampons, 1970, New Zealand - 1941 ad -  
Several Personal Digest leaflets - 1967
ad - undated instructions here and here.
- Australian ad, 1950s 
Panties: Modess "Sanitary
Shield" (two-band pad holder in crotch; 1970s; U.S.A.) 
Modess "Panti-kini" (two-band holder
to hold pad in crotch; 1960s-1970s, U.S.A.)
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