See a beautiful German pad ad from the 1930s - More Kotex: Ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog) - first newspaper ad? (1920) and early newspaper ads - early newspaper articles about Kotex and Cellucotton - 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 - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday - Pad directory See also the first Kotex ad (1921) - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, (Kotex booklet, 1928), which has many Kotex links - the booklet Preparing for Womanhood (by Kotex, ca. 1928)- "Are you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - and more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page See the Kotex Quest menstrual pad deodorant. But read what really causes menstrual odor - you won't like it. See also Australian douche ad (ca. 1900) - Fresca douche powder (U.S.A.) (date ?) - Kotique douche liquid ad, 1974 (U.S.A.) - Liasan (1) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Liasan (2) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Lysol douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Lysol douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Midol menstrual pain pill ad, 1938 (U.S.A.) - Midol booklet (selections), 1959 (U.S.A.) - Mum deodorant cream ad, 1926 (U.S.A.) - Myzone menstrual pain pills ad, 1952 (Australia) - Pristeen genital spray ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) - Spalt pain tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Vionell genital spray ad, 1970, with Cheryl Tiegs (Germany) - Zonite douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) The Perils of Vaginal Douching (essay by Luci Capo Rome) - the odor page 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? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? | Amazing women! | the art of menstruation | artists (non-menstrual) | asbestos | belts | bidets | founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | cats | company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | contraception and religion | costumes | menstrual cups | cup usage | dispensers | douches, pain, sprays | essay directory | extraction | facts-of-life booklets for girls | famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | 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 directory | patent medicine | poetry directory | products, current | puberty booklets for girls and parents | religion | Religión y menstruación | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | shame | slapping, menstrual | sponges | synchrony | tampon directory | early tampons | teen ads directory | tour of the former museum (video) | 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 Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación. Kotex menstrual pad ad, U.S.A., 1922, (month unknown) The Ladies Home Journal How could you characterize the early Kotex consumers any better than the ladies below? Other Kotex women such as this one lent their "daintiness" to a subject most women didn't like at all. There's a sort of irony suffusing these pictures. Kotex replaced the common bird's-eye cloth - diaper cloth - that many women used to soak up their menstrual discharge although there were similar products available. But Kotex triumphed. The ad also discusses the Kotex vending machine, still anchored in many women's public toilets. I enlarged the text, below the top picture. Below: Merriam-Webster online says this about toilette: "from French toilette, cloth on which items used for grooming are placed, from Middle French, piece of batiste, from diminutive of toile cloth. Date: 1667." The ad measures 10.5 x 14" (26.5 x 35.5 cm). The text mentions other uses for Kotex. One today is soaking up blood from wounds, reflecting the origin of the material. I put enlargements of sections below the complete ad. Below: Look at the quotation marks inside the period in the first sentence and elsewhere. That breaks the silly American rule valid today but is common in Europe. I wonder if it's a mistake or relects American style in the 1920s.     See the illustration, enlarged. See a beautiful German pad ad from the 1930s - More Kotex: Ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog) - first newspaper ad? (1920) and early newspaper ads - early newspaper articles about Kotex and Cellucotton - 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 - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday - Pad directory © 2007 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org