More ads for teens (see also introductory
page for teenage advertising): Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and Quest napkin powder, 1948, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins, 1953, U.S.A.), Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and belts, 1964, U.S.A.), Freedom (1990, Germany),
Kotex (1992, U.S.A.),
Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.),
Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.),
Saba (1975, Denmark)
More ads for teens: See a Modess True or False? ad in The American Girl magazine, January
1947, and actress Carol Lynley in "How Shall
I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad (1955) - Modess
. . . . because ads (many dates). Freedom
(1990, Germany), Kotex (1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
 
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
Ad for Kotex sanitary napkins, U.S.A., 1942, magazine unknown)
Has the Iraq war changed menstrual products advertising? I don't think
so. But World War II changed Kotex advertising just as it affected radio
programs in the early 1940s (I just listened to the Great Gildersleeve pitch
war bonds to fight the Nazis).
The word blackout gives away the war and the volunteer theme might also
refer to it. But for sure the ad ran in 1942.
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Below: See the booklet "As
One Girl To Another," advertised in the text. The ad measures 8.0
x 11.5" (20.4 x 29.1 cm).
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Below: The boy shows effort - look at his
hair and tilt of the eyebrows - but the girl is composed. Of course! She
wears Kotex!
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Below: The artist signed his name near
the outer leg of the chair: Irving Nurick
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NEXT: Can a woman lieutenant
marry a [male] private?
May 1943, The American Girl magazine (U.S.A.)
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