See more underpants on this site.
And read Lynn Peril's series about these
and similar booklets!
See more Kotex items: First ad
(1921) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog)
- Lee Miller ads (first real person in amenstrual
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
disposal method - box
from about 1969 - "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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"Sanitary Bloomers" (underpants
for menstruation)
from the Sears, Roebuck catalog, 1922
These are "bloomers" - underpants - for menstruating women
to wear at night, sold by Sears, Roebuck and Company in 1922. This is an
early brief-style underpants, possibly derived from babies' diapers. The
style reappeared in the Sears catalog in 1935
as regular underpants for women. American women typically wore loose-fitting
long-leg underpants in the earlier part of the twentieth century; they wore
similar underpants with an open crotch in the
19th century, probably to make defecation and urination easy.
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See a sanitary bloomer from the 1930 Savage catalog.
See more underpants on this site.
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