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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NEXT: See some
details 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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