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"Sanitary Step-In" (menstrual underpants) in Vanity Fair magazine,
1928
This is a Hickory "sanitary step-in" - underpants - from McCall's
magazine (July 1928) magazine, underpants with a rubber crotch for wear
during menstruation. Aren't the drawing and calligraphy fantastic? They
were done with Wolfgangus Amadeus Mozartus's (as he jokingly referred to
himself in a letter, poking fun of the Latinization of names) dictum in
mind that art should be art, no matter what the subject. The magazines of
the first forty years of our century are often fabulous to behold. The Vanity Fair artist FISH, a woman, by the way, exemplifies
the humor and talent of the era.
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