More Modess booklets: Growing Up and Liking It (complete booklets: 1944, 1949, 1957, 1963, 1964, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1991 The Personal Products Company, U.S.A.) (many covers, 1944-1978)
Many puberty educational booklets for girls
Wrapped Modess pad for dispenser (1930s?) - Modess ad, U.K., 1936 - True or False? Modess ad in The American Girl magazine, January 1947
Panties: Modess "Sanitary Shield" (two-band pad holder in crotch; 1970s; U.S.A.)
Modess "Panti-kini" (two-band holder to hold pad in crotch; 1960s-1970s, U.S.A.)
Many more women's underpants


See also Ads for Teens

"A Teaching Guide for Menstrual Hygiene" (cover, 1962, Personal Products Corp., U.S.A.)
"A Teacher's Guide to Feminine Hygiene" (cover, 1973, Personal Products Corp., U.S.A.)
"Educational Material on Menstruation furnished by the makers of Tampax" (1966) U.S.A.
Folder with huge number of information sheets, etc.
"Educational Portfolio on Menstrual Hygiene" (1968) U.S.A. Teacher's kit for Modess sanitary napkins, menstrual tampons and panties (mostly complete)
"From Fiction to Fact: a teaching guide about puberty, menstruation and the human reproductive system" (complete 1966, 1986, Tambrands, U.S.A. The 1966 version is part of the huge "Educational Material on Menstruation furnished by the makers of Tampax," 1966)
"Teacher's kit" (complete, early 1950s, Personal Products Corp., U.S.A.)

How shall I tell my daughter? [Daughter in the 1969 edition] (complete booklets, 1963, 1969, Personal Products Co.) See covers of Modess booklets. Excerpt about how to fasten a pad to a belt and about sanitary panties & a funny story from the 1969 booklet.
Modess (Johnson & Johnson, U.S.A.): 1927 Gilbreth report to Johnson & Johnson about Modess - newspaper ads 1927-28 - "Silent Purchase" ad, June 1928 - ad, 1928 - ad, April 1929 ("Don't weaken, Mother") - ad, June 1929 ("Never mind, Mother, you'll learn") - ad about concealing pad, 1930 - ad compared with Kotex ad, 1931 - ad, 1931 - wrapped Modess pad for dispenser, 1930s? - Ad, U.K., 1936 - True or False? ad in The American Girl magazine, January 1947 - Australian ad, 1957 - ad (1956) with "Modess . . . . because" ad incorporated into it - ad for "Growing Up and Liking It" booklet (1963, Modess) - actress Carol Lynley in "How shall I tell my daughter?" booklet ad (1955) - Modess . . . . because ads (many dates) - French ad, 1970s? - ad, French, 1972, photo by David Hamilton - Personal Digest leaflets (6), 1966-67: describe Modess products - How Modess Sanitary Napkins Began: excerpts from"A Company That Cares: One Hundred Year Illustrated History of Johnson and Johnson"
Booklets menstrual hygiene companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine - a list of books and articles about menstruation - videos
Ads for teenagers
Many more PADS, BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS
HOMEPAGE
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? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Contraceptive drugs, old |
Contraceptive douche & sponges |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory |
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, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
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 |
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.

Nancy's Biggest Day at Camp (1941)
Puberty, menstrual education booklet for girls (Personal Products, U.S.A.)

Introduction

I thank the donor for this and many other items donated to this museum!


Below: p. 10. See a depiction of the problems involving washing early American menstrual pads. Some women today in the U.S. and elsewhere, of course, wash reusable pads.
Below: p. 11. See many menstrual pad belts and photos of
how they were worn in a Dutch ad and a Swedish ad.
See why the tab in back is longer than the one in front.
Compare these pictures & text with a piece of paper, below, Kotex probably put in its napkin boxes,
probably in the 1920s (this is just an excerpt; see the COMPLETE VERSIONS, front & back,
of two different sheets).
Note the word bandage, which betrays the origin of Kotex.
Women often used Bird's Eye cloth - diaper cloth - to make washable menstrual pads. You can buy it today.
The long discussion makes the early tampon ads crowing "No pins, No belts,
No pads, No odor"
understandable.
Disposing of Kotex pads also appears in an American booklet (1928) and one in Spanish.
Fat chance most women carried scissors with them and carefully dismembered the bloody
things, then flushed them away. Read an early nightmarish account of what could happen.
I thank the anonymous donor!


NEXT | covers & intro 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16-17 18-19 20-21 22-23
Wrapped Modess pad for dispenser (1930s?) - Modess ad, U.K., 1936 - True or False? Modess ad in The American Girl magazine, January 1947
Growing Up and Liking It (complete booklets: 1944, 1949, 1957, 1963, 1964, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1991 The Personal Products Company, U.S.A.) (many covers, 1944-1978)
How shall I tell my daughter? [Daughter in the 1969 edition] (complete booklets, 1963, 1969, Personal Products Co.) See covers of Modess booklets. Excerpt about how to fasten a pad to a belt and about sanitary panties & a funny story from the 1969 booklet.
More ads for teenagers - Panties: Modess "Sanitary Shield" (two-band pad holder in crotch; 1970s; U.S.A.)
Modess "Panti-kini" (two-band holder to hold pad in crotch; 1960s-1970s, U.S.A.)
Many more women's underpants

Many more
BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, PADS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS

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