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.)
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: Pages 2-3. See the enlarged p. 2
below and p. 3 here.
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Below: Page 2, comparing the tampon with
Tampax and probably right before the appearance of Rely
tampon, which culminated the absorbency battles by introducing a new absorbent
substance that apparently led to the injury and deaths of many women. Rely
didn't create toxic shock (which men and women can get in other ways) but
greatly increased its incidence through the vagina.
Companies early on asked women to test their tampons
with water - for example, here.
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Copyright Harry Finley 2007
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