See a 1965 ad for a Pursettes school educational kit - Pursettes Getting to Know Yourself booklet for girls - other teaching booklets: Growing Up and Liking It and How Shall I Tell My Daughter? - underpants directory - tampon directory - early commercial tampons - ads for teens
Early commercial tampons - main page for ads for teens - see the actual Pursette tampon, box and tote - See more ads for Pursettes: July 1972 (letter testimonial) - October 1974 (cartoon story) - February 1974 (cartoon story) - September 1972 (letter testimonial) - August 1974 (letter testimonial) - 1975 (cartoon story)
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? | e-mail the museum | privacy on this site | who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! | the art of menstruation | artists (non-menstrual) | asbestos | belts | bidets | founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | cats | company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | contraception and religion | costumes | menstrual cups | cup usage | dispensers | douches, pain, sprays | essay directory | extraction | facts-of-life booklets for girls | famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | 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 directory | patent medicine | poetry directory | products, current | puberty booklets for girls and parents | religion | Religión y menstruación | your remedies for menstrual discomfort | menstrual products safety | science | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | shame | slapping, menstrual | sponges | synchrony | tampon directory | early tampons | teen ads directory | tour of the former museum (video) | 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
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

 
Museum of Menstruation and Women's health

Pursettes menstrual tampon ads,
In many magazines, U.S.A., September 1963,
during the reform of civil rights in America

Introduction.
I thank Tambrands, the former maker of Tampax, for donating to this museum a file folder of dozens of Pursettes and Modess ads!

Below: Glamour magazine. Underlining below and to the right apparently emphasize points important to competitor Tambrands, which owned these ads. A Tampax hand underlined and added her/his initials bottom left. And used the now-rare typewriter to show (bottom) where the ad came from - with a type-over.

This ad does not follow the custom of using the first letter(s) of the magazine name in the box address. But "Box B" is probably still a reader-tracking device.
Below: Redbook magazine

White clothing is famous in menstrual product advertising to show how a company's offering does not leak and stain.

NEXT | Ebony, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, RN, and Teen Screen magazines

 See a 1965 ad for a Pursettes school educational kit - Pursettes Getting to Know Yourself booklet for girls - See the Pursettes tampon

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