Read the Gilbreth Report, which surveyed
college and high school girls in the mid-1920s.
See more Kotex items: First ad
for the pad (1921; scroll to bottom of page) - pad ad, 1928 (Sears
and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller pad ads
(first real person in a menstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition;
there are many links here to Kotex items) - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls; Australian edition) - 1920s
booklet in Spanish showing pad disposal method
- box from about 1969 -
"Are you in the know?" ads
for pads (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) -
See more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page
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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The menstrual wave
No, it's not a woman waving to another to show she's menstruating just
as sports car driviers used to wave at each other in the 60s.
Dr. Howard Kelly's last edition (1928) of the text Gynecology
mentions the "menstrual wave," which was probably the wave of
changes of a woman's body produced by the sex hormones through the menstrual
cycle, such as by estrogen. Little was known at the time about the nature
of these hormones. He writes,
From Raciborski's publication in 1868 and the later papers of Stephenson
and Mary Putnam Jacobi, there have been frequent discussions of a metabolic
wave process, corresponding to the menstrual wave. The problem is
not a simple one and there is no unanimity of opinion. Some observers record
a slight rise in temperature, pulse, and blood-pressure, while others report
the contrary.
Read about the physiology of menstruation.
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