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.).
Playtex Economy Pak announcement pages 1 (cover) - 2 - 3 - 4
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 Plus" (1970s?,
U.S.A.)
The race to absorb more than the
other tampons led another company
to sell the dangerous Rely tampon,
which rocked the industry and put
many women in the hospital and a
few in the grave. Note that
Playtex introduced a new absorbent
material; Rely also used a new
material that first raised
questions about cancer, then toxic
shock.
Companies early on asked women
to test their tampons with water -
for example, here.
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:
The cover (page 1) of the 4-page
brochure. It measures 8.5 x 11"
(21.5 x 27.8 cm) and is
heavy-weight coated (glossy)
paper. Somebody at Tambrands
probably kept it in a 3-ring
binder, accounting for the holes
at the left side.
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Copyright Harry Finley 2007
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