Compad (U.S.A., 1940s-1960s?) single compressed pad with belt in tiny package
Delicate (U.S.A., mid 1940s-50s?) pads to carry, in a tube - ad, 1953
Kotex "Featherweight" menstrual pad belt in a tube
Pad-n-all (1930s-1940s?, U.S.A.) a combination of pad and attached belt, probably made of cotton
Travelers, pads for. See also Venus, U.S.A., 1930s-1940s, and ad for Gotham and Venus compressed sanitary napkins, U.S.A., 1917, 1916.
Kotex ad about concealing pad, 1953 - Ad for Kotex menstrual pads, 1955 - a Kotex doesn't-show ad, 1960 - menarche ad for the Kotex Introductory Kit (Miss Deb pad & belt, etc.), 1966 - pad, box, mid 1960s (see Cybill Shepherd's ads for this, 1970-71) - pad, box, 1969, "sci-fi" - Lightdays Pantiliner ads featuring named women, 1982, 1985, 1986
ALL KOTEX PADS, BOOKLETS, TAMPONS, BELTS
Harry Finley created the images.
What did women do about menstruation in the past?
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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.


MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH

Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Kotex individually wrapped feminine napkins (U.S.A., 1966)

Introduction.

Below: Left: one of the 8 pads enveloped in a paper-like material.
Center: side view showing a crescent-shaped tab (arrow) on the envelope that the user pulls
to free the pad from the envelope.
Right: end of the pad's envelope.
Below: Pulling the crescent tab peels a strip of material through the center of the envelope
enabling the user to remove the remaining caps (middle image) of material from the ends of the rolled pad,
which in the third image is beginning to unroll. The arrow points to the edge of one cap.
Below: The pad is unrolled except for the two ends that attach to a belt around the waist.
(Women could also put these into panties with special holders in a raging menstrual panty market [and here].)
The blue line indicates the side that is NOT pressed against the vulva.
As shown, the pad measures about 6 1/4 x 3" (about 16 x 7.4 cm)
Below: The short end of the pad (at left) attaches to a menstrual belt at the front of the body
and the long end at the back. See why. (I show both the blue line and absorption sides.)
From the end to the tip of the triangle the short end measures 4" (10.2 cm) leng and the long end
5 1/4" (13.3 cm), depending on how hard you pull on the tab. It's very flexible, which is (was)
important for comfort.

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Compad (U.S.A., 1940s-1960s?) single compressed pad with belt in tiny package
Delicate (U.S.A., mid 1940s-50s?) pads to carry, in a tube - ad, 1953
Kotex "Featherweight" menstrual pad belt in a tube
Pad-n-all (1930s-1940s?, U.S.A.) a combination of pad and attached belt, probably made of cotton
Travelers, pads for. See also Venus, U.S.A., 1930s-1940s, and ad for Gotham and Venus compressed sanitary napkins, U.S.A., 1917, 1916.

Kotex ad about concealing pad, 1953 - Ad for Kotex menstrual pads, 1955 - a Kotex doesn't-show ad, 1960 -
menarche ad for the Kotex Introductory Kit (Miss Deb pad & belt, etc.), 1966 - pad, box, mid 1960s
(see Cybill Shepherd's ads for this, 1970-71) - pad, box, 1969, "sci-fi" - Lightdays Pantiliner ads featuring named women, 1982, 1985, 1986
ALL KOTEX PADS, BOOKLETS, TAMPONS, BELTS

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