See Similar booklets made by menstrual products companies.
Read a Personal Products booklet for older girls from about this time, The Periodic Cycle (1938). See similar booklets on this site.
See also How shall I tell my daughter? and Personal Digest and read the whole booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940).
See a Kotex ad advertising a Marjorie May booklet.
See many more similar booklets.
See ads for menarche-education booklets: Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1932), Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1981)
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Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

"Just Between Us . . ." (Beltx puberty & menstruation booklet,
U.S.A., 1950)
Complete booklet

See portions of the 1961 edition.

I thank the kind donor of the booklet!

Below: Pp. 10-11.

NEXT | outside of wrapper - inside wrapper & cover - inside front cover & p.1 - pages 2-3 - pages 4-5 - pages 6-7 - pages 8-9 - pages 10-11 - pages 12 & inside back cover - back cover and inside wrapper back cover - Many actual belts - Menstrual pad suspenders! 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.
Menstrual panties. Similar booklets made by menstrual products companies.
 
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