See more underpants
on this site.
See more ads for
menarche-education booklets: Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with
Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and
German o.b. tampons
(lower ad, 1970s)
And read Lynn Peril's series
about these and similar booklets!
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) -
ad 1928 (Sears and
Roebuck catalog) - Lee
Miller ads (first real person in
amenstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928,
Australian edition; there are many links here to
Kotex items) - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls;
Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish
showing disposal
method - box
from about 1969 - "Are
you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See
more ads on the Ads for
Teenagers main page
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"Sanitary panties"
("Monats-Höschen," underpants
with holders for a menstrual pad,
about 1960, Germany)
European cultures, such as Germany
and America, seem to have sold
tight-fitting underpants to hold a
menstrual pad in place for much of the
20th century. The Sears, Roebuck
catalog sold one
as early as 1922 for night wear (and
see many from the 1946-47
catalog, together with pad
belts.)
Self-adhesive
pads chased most of them out of
the market in the early 1970s. See a
similar American
brief from 1972.
By the way, Monats-Höschen,
usually written Monatshöschen
today, means something like monthly underpants,
meaning,
of course, not that they are worn
for a month, but that they are used
for that monthly business,
menstruation.
See more underpants
on this site.
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Most of the underpants
consists of white Perlon, an
artificial fiber; the crotch is lined
with plastic; the loops - they hold
the ends, the tabs, of the pad - are
also of plastic. The waist and leg
openings tighten with elastic.
The picture (I, Harry
Finley, added the words and arrow) and
technical information come from Zur Geschichte der
Unterwäsche. 1700-1960. Eine
Ausstellung des Historischen Museums
Frankfurt 28. April bis 28. August
1988, by
Almut Junker and Eva Stille; FfM,
Germany (Historisches Museum) 1988,
the catalog of an exhibit about the
history of underclothing in the city
historical museum of Frankfurt am
Main, Germany, in 1988.
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© 2001 Harry Finley. It is
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