See early tampoms Dale,
Wix and B-ettes and a bunch of other
earlier ones.
Ad Aug 1965 -
actress Susan Dey ad,
1970 - gymnast Mary Lou
Retton ad, 1986 - ad,
British, 1994 (the thong advantage)
See more Tampax items:
American ad from August
1965 - nudity in an ad: May 1992 (United
Kingdom) - a sign
advertising Tampax during World War II - the
original patent
- an instruction
sheet from the 1930s
See a Modess True or
False? ad in The American Girl magazine,
January 1947, and actress Carol
Lynley in "How Shall I Tell My Daughter"
booklet ad (1955) - Modess
. . . . because ads (many dates).
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Playtex Sport menstrual
tampon, 2006 (?), U.S.A.
Tampon
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Arrows:
#1 shows
a notch that helps ripping the cover
open and dampens the sound; heaven
forbid that anyone else in a women's
restroom should think someone was
using a tampon.
#2 The
petal-like opening of the applicator.
Flowers
have long been linked with
menstruation, maybe even ironically,
although the word itself probably came
from French and meant "flow."
And the camellia
has had a bizarre association with
menstruation in Germany.
#3 The
string penetrating the plug, seen also
in early
tampons.
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