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"Remember how simple life used to be?" ads, 1967 & ?, Kotex ad for stick menstrual tampons

Regressing to a pre-menstruation age would be the wish of many women - at least if it meant no periods. Just read what some women have said.

Maybe more than in any other ad Kotex zips the viewer back to idyllic childhood. Even the drawing looks childish in its simplicity and ragged lines although as someone who drew for publications, I promise you it took a talented adult to create the pictures.

In the second ad Kotex challenges Tampax (and most tampons) here by mentioning the stick applicator ("insertion wand"! Talk about the magic of childhood!), not a tube applicator, Tampax's great contribution. The wooden stick was biodegradable and ecologically sound, in contrast to the tampons that used plastic applicators (for example, Meds, by Modess; Playtex and others).

These two ads formed part of a series.

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Below: The April 1967 ad measures 10 3/8 x 13 3/8" (26.5 x 34 cm). Publication unknown.
 
Below: The irregular outlines strengthens the feeling that some (happy and nonmenstruating) kid drew it.
 
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