Tour the former Museum
of Menstruation in my house.
Belt topics
See how women wore a belt (and in a Swedish
ad). See a modern belt
for a washable pad and a page from the 1946-47
Sears catalog showing a great variety - ad for Hickory
belts, 1920s? - Modess belts in Personal Digest
(1966)
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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Norwegian exhibit about menstruation & the company history
of the Scandinavian tampon and menstrual pad company
SCA Mølnlycke
Oh, OK, I guess you want a translation.
My Norwegian is rusty, but here goes:
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(This is from a local Norwegian newspaper called
Samhold, 3 October 1995, sent to me by Merethe Slensvik of the Libresse
company.)
Big words: The Pad in the Form of a Joke
(The joke's the red part; I added the red):
"One of the more common blonde jokes is,
for example, Why are there 10 dead blondes lying at the foot of a high apartment
building in Stovner? They had tried Libresse with wings."
This edition of the paper had a whole page devoted
to the menstruation exhibit, and this vitse (compare the English word wit)
had a little section by itself at the lower left.
I taught myself to read Norwegian fairly well (and a few other languages)
while I lived in Europe. If someone arrived from Mars and had to learn a
language, English and Norwegian would be the easiest to learn, in spite
of English pronunciation and spelling, as much as it hurts English speakers
to hear this!
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