See the Fibs box and an ad
for Fibs. 1935-59 ads for Fibs.
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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Instructions for the "first" Kotex menstrual tampon, Fibs,
about 1937, U.S.A.
A book, "Shared Values: A History of Kimberly-Clark" by Robert
Spector (1997), mentions Fibs as the earliest K-C tampon by name. But it
also says "The company made several stops and starts in the tampon
business" (p. 67). I have evidence that Nunap and fax tampons
might have been among their first stops and starts (read my argument)
- and they might have been the first commercial tampons.
According to "Shared Values," Fibs was too big and bulky,
did not sell well and eventually failed.
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Fibs tampon, box and
an ad for Fibs. 1935-59
ads for Fibs.
See the roughly contemporary Cashay
and Dale tampons, and very early Tampax
and fax.
copyright 2006 Harry Finley
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