See an ad for Confidets in the
year it appeared, 1961, its booklet for girls, World
of a girl.
See some pad dispensers and ads
for pads that come with pouches: New
Freedom and Whenever, from the U.S.A., and
Camelia, from Germany.
Look at disposal bags found in public toilets
around the world.
See how women wore a belt (and in a Swedish ad).
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Confidets: the first contoured pads? The
first pad sold with disposal bags? (1967, U.S.A., Scott Paper Company)
Consumer Reports magazine wrote that American women preferred Confidets
to all other pads in 1978, according to Nancy Friedman in her book Everything You Must Know About Tampons (Berkley
Books, New York 1980; Ms. Friedman
praised this museum), shoving aside the more famous Kotex and Modess.
The reason might have been the tapered shape - women have more room at the
front of the vulva for a pad - and the disposal bags; both may have been
firsts in the industry.
Scott Paper Company created the brand in 1961 - see an ad
for it from that year - but discontinued it in the 1980s. Read its booklet
for girls, World of a girl.
See some pad dispensers and ads for pads that come with pouches: New
Freedom and Whenever, from the U.S.A., and
Camelia, from Germany.
Look at disposal bags found in public toilets
around the world.
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The absorbent part of the pad is about 8" (20 cm) long.
See why the tab in front is shorter than the
rear tab.
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According to the yellow sticker, the box of 12 of the above
pads cost $1.15, probably on or about 1967, the copyright date on the box.
Below, the back of the box.
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The box, above, bears a copyright of 1967.
Below: a
later Confidets, showing the narrowing more clearly. See
why the tab in front is shorter than the rear tab.
Later, Confidets came in unbelted varieties that stuck into panties with
adhesive strips. Confidets disappeared in the mid 1980s.
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See more ads for menarche-education booklets:
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday
(Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey),
Personal Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and
German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1981)
See also the booklets How
shall I tell my daughter? (Modess, various dates), Growing
up and liking it (Modess, various dates), and Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
And read Lynn Peril's series about these and
similar booklets!
See another ad for As One Girl to Another (1942),
and the booklet itself.
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