Excerpt from the puberty booklet Growing Up and Liking It about how to fasten a pad to a belt and about sanitary panties & a funny story from the 1969 booklet.
Flushable (U.S.A.) menstrual-pad ads: Modess, June 1972 - Sani-Flite, Aug. 1971 - Kotex Simplicity (U.K.) and here - early problems with Kotex
Ads, 1920s, featuring Kotex spokeswomen, living and maybe fictional - putting Kotex on the counter to sell it (drawing) - small b&w ad, 1920s - ads, 1921: January, May, July, November - 1920s: skating and small ad - ad, 15 November 1922 - ad, March 1922 - ad, January 1923 - ad on side of train, 1920s - ad, July 1923, with proof - car ad, Nov. 1923 - ad, March 1926 - "Woman's Greatest Hygienic Handicap" ad, 1927

Booklets menstrual hygiene companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine - a list of books and articles about menstruation - videos
Ads for teenagers
Many more PADS, BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS
HOMEPAGE
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
HOMEPAGE |
MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Contraceptive drugs, old |
Contraceptive douche & sponges |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory |
Founder/director biography |
Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux |
Humor |
Huts |
Links |
Masturbation |
Media coverage of MUM |
Menarche booklets for girls and parents |
Miscellaneous |
Museum future |
Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
Odor |
Olor |
Pad, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
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.


The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health

Kotex pad, mini & maxi & beltless pad, stick & heavy duty tampons, pantiliner ad
July 1978
Glamour magazine, U.S.A.

You - no, don't look behind you! - YOU are lucky!

No belts, no pins, no nuthin'! Wait a second, unless you take hormones nuthin' is somethin' although it's less than what your mothers and grandmas dealt with. Hope you can figure that out.

Kotex made tampons probably before Tampax did and helped chase belts that held pads from drugstores, a blessing for most women in the guise of sticky-back pads.

This ad nicely shows what Kotex offered in 1978, a lifetime-and-a-half ago for many of you.

See the rich ladies Kotex zeroed in on, their servants' kids, all kids, early Kotex tampons with no applicator (and for you "moderne" women), Kotex belts and stick tampons.

See too an American booklet (1928) and a page from a Spanish-language booklet with pad disposal drawings, both from Kotex.

And see the method for fastening the 1941 Modess pads.

See many menstrual pad belts and photos of
how they were worn in a Dutch ad and a Swedish ad.

I thank the donor!



Below: The ad probably measured 8 1/2 x 11" (21.6 x 28 cm) before the margins were cut.

Early Kotex ads, and from many other companies, presented blacks
only in subservient roles, certainly not as much higher-status interviewers
(at bottom left). But a Tassette tampon ad in the decade before
shows an African-American woman in a magazine aimed at blacks, Ebony.


Excerpt from the puberty booklet Growing Up and Liking It about how to fasten a pad to a belt and about sanitary panties and read a funny story from this 1969 booklet.
Ads, 1920s, featuring Kotex spokeswomen, living and maybe fictional - putting Kotex on the counter to sell it (drawing) - small b&w ad, 1920s - ads, 1921: January, May, July, November - 1920s: skating and small ad - ad, 15 November 1922 - ad, March 1922 - ad, January 1923 - ad on side of train, 1920s - ad, July 1923, with proof - car ad, Nov. 1923 - ad, March 1926 - "Woman's Greatest Hygienic Handicap" ad, 1927

Many more
BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, PADS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS

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