See some pad dispensers and ads
for pads that come with pouches: New
Freedom and Whenever, from the U.S.A., and
Camelia, from Germany.
Look at disposal bags found in public toilets
around the world.
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) - drawing
for a proposed German belt and pad, 1894 - ads
for early 20th-century Japanese belts - belts
and washable pads from the 1902 and 1908 Sears, Roebuck
catalogs
 
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Ad for Confidets: the first contoured menstrual
pads? The first pad sold with disposal bags? (1961, U.S.A., Scott Paper
Company)
Confidets was the latest in scores - hundreds? - of companies claiming
their pads and tampons were accident proof. Well, it couldn't write that
it prevented most accidents or was fairly good. The competition
would jump on that.
Anyway, Consumer Reports magazine wrote that American women preferred
Confidets to all other pads in 1978, according to Nancy Friedman in her
book Everything You Must Know About Tampons
(Berkley Books, New York 1980; Ms.
Friedman praised this museum), shoving aside the more famous Kotex and
Modess. The reason might have been the tapered shape - women have more room
at the front of the vulva for a pad - and the disposal bags (see other disposal bags ); both might have been firsts
in the industry.
See a diagram showing a similar anatomical problem, that of why the
tabs on pads using belts (like this one; it would be years before the familiar
stick-in-panties pads appeared, like Stayfree)
had to be longer in the back.
Scott Paper Company brought the brand out in 1961 but discontinued it
in the 1980s.
See some pad dispensers and ads for pads that come with pouches: New
Freedom and Whenever, from the U.S.A., and
Camelia, from Germany.
Look at disposal bags found in public toilets
around the world.
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The ad measures 10.25 x 13.25" (26 x 33.6 cm), symbolic of the era
of large, great ads killed by the oil embargo of the early 1970s.
Below: enlargement of the text at lower
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See ads for menarche-education booklets:
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday
(Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey),
Personal Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and
German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1981)
See also the booklets How
shall I tell my daughter? (Modess, various dates), Growing
up and liking it (Modess, various dates), and Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
And read Lynn Peril's series about these and
similar booklets!
See another ad for As One Girl to Another (1942),
and the booklet itself.
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