4-page announcement
to retailers about Playtex Plus and Super
Plus tampons.
1970s?
Playtex Economy Pak announcement (1975) pages 1 (cover) - 2 - 3 - 4
Playtex Sport tampons
(2006) box, tampons,
instructions
How to sell Kotex,
a page for trade
publications, probably early 1920s,
U.S.A., and "Your
Image is Your Fortune!," Modess sales-hints
booklet for stores similar to the one
below, 1967 (U.S.A.)
"Educational
Material on Menstruation furnished by the
makers of Tampax" (1966) U.S.A.: Folder with huge
number of information sheets, etc.
"From Fiction to Fact:
a teaching guide about puberty,
menstruation and the human reproductive
system" (cover,
1986, Tambrands, U.S.A.)
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S
HEALTH
Playtex super extra
absorbent self-adjusting menstrual tampons
(1974, International Playtex Corp., U.S.A.)
I thank
the former Tambrands, maker of
Tampax, for donating the box!
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Below:
Open the box and you see this.
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Below:
The paper-wrapped tampon right out
of the box
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Below:
I enlarged it to make the lower text visible.
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Below:
The whole tampon. Look at the plug
(absorbing part) and
string in the plastic
applicator.
It stretches 4 3/4" (12.1 cm).
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Below:
The 'pon disassembled.
At left,
the plug
measures 2 1/8 x 5/8" (5.5 x 1.5
cm), its string
5 1/2" (13.5 cm) long.
Middle:
the plunger
is 2 3/4 x 3/8" (7 x 1 cm).
Right:
the second
tube measures 2 3/4 x
9/16" (at widest part) (7 x 1.6
cm).
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Below:
I'd hate to be the guy who has to
thread the
string! Just like the
person
who has to stick those *!#*%@# labels on
apples!
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4-page
announcement to retailers about
Playtex
Plus and Super Plus tampons. 1970s?
Playtex Economy Pak announcement
(1975) pages
1 (cover) - 2 - 3 - 4
Playtex
Sport tampons (2006) box, tampons,
instructions
How to
sell Kotex, a page for trade
publications, probably early
1920s, U.S.A., and "Your Image is
Your Fortune!," Modess
sales-hints booklet for stores
similar to the one below, 1967
(U.S.A.)
Rely
(U.S.A.) tampons, box,
instructions, newspaper
exposé; associated with
toxic shock syndrome crisis of
1979-80
"Educational
Material on Menstruation
furnished by the makers of
Tampax" (1966) U.S.A.: Folder
with huge number of information
sheets, etc.
"From
Fiction to Fact: a teaching
guide about puberty,
menstruation and the human
reproductive system" (cover,
1986, Tambrands, U.S.A.)
Tampax
Bulletins (from Tampax,
U.S.A.), probably from the 1950s,
answering 19 frequently asked
questions
Early commercial
tampons - Rely tampon
- Meds
tampon (Modess)
The first Tampax
- Tampon
directory.
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