Kotex ad emphasizing shame, 1992
See more Kotex items: First ad
(1921) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog)
- Lee Miller ads (first real person in amenstrual
hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday
(booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many links here
to Kotex items) - Preparing for Womanhood (1920s,
booklet for girls; Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing
disposal method - box
from about 1969 - "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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Kotex & Tampax boxes and a douche bag and nozzle for a doll's house
- well, maybe not for the house
It's hard to imagine a girl playing with her dolls and these boxes,
but if so, more power to her and her parents!
The unknown maker of the Kotex - Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the Kotex
manufacturer? - based both boxes (below left) on Kotex boxes from the 1970s
and 1980s, many of which used flowers in the design (see Kotex
belts from this time with flowers, part of this same "campaign.")
"Cottage Industries" made the douche.
A retired teacher kindly donated the douche to the museum.
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Tiny boxes for a doll house
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This label accompanied the mini-boxes.
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Above are Kotex boxes from the 1980s (top) and 1974 (bottom).
Each box is 7.38" wide x 8" high (about
18.7 x 20.5 cm) and thus not to scale with the doll's boxes.
Kotex made many boxes in these decades with roses
on them, the common flower motif, seemingly about as unmenstrual as you
can get. But the word "flowers" once meant
menstruation, and manufacturers have often used them with their products.
And better "smelling like a rose" than otherwise (here's more
about odor).
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See another ad for As One Girl to Another
(1942), and the booklet itself.
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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