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.
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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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