See more Kotex items: First
ad for the pad (1921; scroll to bottom of page)
 
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Fibs menstrual tampon, started 1930s, Kotex, U.S.A.
Fibs was the first major Kotex tampon (see two possible predecessors),
appearing in the late 1930s, and like Wix and fax, had no applicator; Tampax (which appeared
before 1936) owned the patent
for applicators.
Note the Kotex crosses, which promote a medical comfort, and are typical
of Kotex boxes until the 1950s. In a sense Kotex pads started out as bandages,
so perhaps the crosses are not entirely fluff. Read
this early history of Kotex.
Fibs was also the name of one of the original cat
staff members of the museum. She died in 2009.
See the actual tampon and an ad
for it.
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See the actual tampon and an ad
for it. See the roughly contemporary Cashay and
Dale tampons, and
very early Tampax and fax.
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