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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Second part of the 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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