See another Hickory belt ad and Japanese
instructions for making menstrual belts and pads
at home in the early 20th century.
More belt topics
Actual belts in the museum
See how women wore a belt (and in a Swedish
ad) - many actual 20th-century
belts - 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) - drawing
for a proposed German belt and pad, 1894
See Japanese instructions for making menstrual
belts and pads at home in the early 20th century.
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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Ad for Hickory belt for menstrual pads, 1925, U.S.A.
Many ads in the 1920s surprise with their beauty, like the one below,
which is black and white, 4.5 x 12.5" (about 12 x 31.5 cm).
The woman's kimono reflects Japanese patterns - see real kimonos in
Japanese ads for menstrual belts. And contemporary
boudoir scenes from menstrual ads, especially from Kotex (for
example from 1927) exude leisure and money as do those from outside
the bedroom (here from 1923). But until at least
the 1950s people, especially women, dressed up to go shopping in America,
180 degrees from the situation today.
Belts held sanitary napkins. At this date pads usually had nothing under
them, just safety pins holding their ends, pressing the pad against the
woman's vulva. Panties of the time were loose (here),
not the tight ones that appeared in the 1930s (here),
so the pad had nothing underneath - a dangerous situation.
A. Stein & Co. made the belts. Note that if your dealer didn't sell
these belts you were to write Mrs. Ruth Stone. "Stone" is "Stein"
in German. I suspect that ripping open the envelopes with dealers' information
was not Mrs. Stein but someone puffing on a big cigar. Just a guess.
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of the ad.
See another Hickory belt ad and Japanese instructions for making menstrual belts and pads
at home in the early 20th century.
Actual belts in the museum
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