How to sell Kotex, a
page for trade publications, probably early 1920s, U.S.A., and "Your Image is Your Fortune!,"
Modess sales-hints booklet for stores, 1967 (U.S.A.).
Playtex Economy Pak announcement pages 1 (cover)
- 2 - 3 - 4
See a prototype of the first Kotex ad.
See more Kotex items: Ad 1928 (Sears
and Roebuck catalog) - Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many
links here to Kotex items) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing disposal
method - box from about 1969 - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls) - "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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THE MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
Announcement to retailers of the menstrual tampon
"Playtex Plus" (1970s?, U.S.A.)
The race to absorb more than the other tampons led another company to
sell the dangerous Rely tampon, which rocked the
industry and put many women in the hospital and a few in the grave. Note
that Playtex introduced a new absorbent material; Rely also used a new material
that first raised questions about cancer, then toxic shock.
Companies early on asked women to test their tampons with water - for
example, here.
See also How to
sell Kotex, a page for trade publications, probably
early 1920s, U.S.A., and "Your Image is
Your Fortune!," Modess sales-hints booklet
for stores similar to the one below, 1967 (U.S.A.).
I thank Tambrands, the former maker of Tampax, for donating this
brochure to the museum.
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Below: The cover (page 1) of the 4-page
brochure. It measures 8.5 x 11" (21.5 x 27.8 cm) and is heavy-weight
coated (glossy) paper. Somebody at Tambrands probably kept it in a 3-ring
binder, accounting for the holes at the left side.
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Copyright Harry Finley 2007
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