See more Kotex items: First
ad for the pad (1921; scroll to bottom of page)
 
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Fibs menstrual tampon, started 1930s, Kotex, U.S.A.
Fibs was the first "major" Kotex tampon (see two possible
predecessors), appearing in the late 1930s, and
like Wix and fax, had no applicator; Tampax (which appeared before
1936) owned the patent for applicators.
Note the Kotex crosses, which promote a medical comfort, and are typical
of Kotex boxes until the 1950s. In a sense Kotex pads started out as bandages,
so perhaps the crosses are not entirely fluff. Read
this early history of Kotex.
See the actual tampon and an ad
for it.
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See the actual tampon and an ad
for it. See the roughly contemporary Cashay and
Dale tampons, and
very early Tampax and fax.
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