The Kotex vending machine (and the pad within from the 1930s), the Kotex pad and box of the
1930s
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
 
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Ad for Mene pads in Peg's
Paper (United Kingdom, 1931)
This ad appeared in a publication of stories for "working-class"
women, Peg's Paper, a predecessor perhaps of "romance novels"
today, but maybe "scrappier" in tone, a word used by the Australian
woman who kindly donated it to the museum. (See the cover, below, and an
illustration from the magazine.)
Instead of speaking to the "smart, young set" of a 1931 Modess ad, who look like customers in the tearoom
below, the ad addresses a poorer group of women, that of the waitress.
Mene pads are sold today in the U.K.
Compare what the pad offers below to an analysis of what American women
wanted in pads in the 1920s, in the Gilbreth Report
(1927).
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The publication is 9.25" x 6.625" (23.5 cm x 17
cm) and made of something like newsprint, a paper that deteriorates easily.
See an enlargement of the faces and a comparison
of some faces from this Peg's Paper with other 1930s faces.
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