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, 1967 (U.S.A.).
                          Announcement to
                              retailers of the menstrual tampon "Playtex
                              Plus" pages 1
                              (cover) - 2
                            - 3 - 4 (back cover)
                          
                          
                          See a prototype
                            of the first Kotex ad.
                          See more Kotex items: Ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck
                              catalog) - Marjorie
                              May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for
                            girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are
                            many links here to Kotex items) - 1920s
                            booklet in Spanish showing disposal method
                            - box from about
                            1969 - Preparing
                              for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for
                            girls) - "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
                            
                          
                            
                              
                                
                                  
                                    Announcement
                                        to retailers of the menstrual
                                        tampon "Playtex Economy Pak"
                                        (1975, U.S.A.)
                                    
                                    See also 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.).
                                    
                                    I thank Tambrands, the former
                                        maker of Tampax, for donating
                                        this brochure to the museum.
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                                    Below:
                                      Back cover, page 4, the last.
                                    See an
                                        early (1930s) contract for
                                        dealers
                                        for a tampon AND a rare use of
                                        red, that taboo color, in
                                        menstrual packaging.
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                                    Copyright Harry Finley 2007
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