See a prototype of the first Kotex ad.
See more Kotex items: Ad 1928 (Sears
and Roebuck catalog) - Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many
links here to Kotex items) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing disposal
method - box from about 1969 - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls) - "Are you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See
more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page
 
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Interlabial Padette menstrual pad (obsolete)
Recently a graduate student called me and told me about the Padette
(below) - now (November 1997) called the Miniform (obsolete in 2006; see
its page)- a wedge of rayon with polypropylene
covering that the user places between the labia (lips) of her vulva,
not into the vagina (picture below).
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Women use them on light menstrual days, for light
urinary leakage or for other light secretions, and the company -
A-Fem Medical Corporation - says it has the absorption capacity of a junior/regular
tampon. The manufacturer states that the pads stay put, without
adhesives, unlike the shifting usual pads, and they don't
bunch up. Padettes are made from the "same materials commonly
used in leading tampon products, external pads and panty pads," without
being highly or super absorbent. They are expelled
with each urination, and either flushed down the toilet or wrapped
and thrown into the trash.
If you live in Florida, find them in Walgreens drug stores. Otherwise, order
them by phone at 1-800-700-8716 (Pacific Standard Time 9-5). Ask questions
at 1-800-764-6864 (EASTERN Standard Time 9-5). They used to cost $7.05 for
48 (the minimum sold, in two boxes), which included shipping and handling;
this is probably not the current (November 1997) price.
Copyright Harry Finley 2006
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