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.)
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:
Pages 2-3. See the enlarged p. 2
below and p. 3 here.
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Below:
Page 2, comparing the tampon with
Tampax and probably right before
the appearance of Rely tampon,
which culminated the absorbency
battles by introducing a new
absorbent substance that
apparently led to the injury and
deaths of many women. Rely didn't
create toxic shock (which men and
women can get in other ways) but
greatly increased its incidence
through the vagina.
Companies
early on asked women to test
their tampons with water - for
example, here.
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Copyright Harry Finley 2007
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