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A reason to smile: Smyle Hygienic Capsules (U.S.A., 1940-1960s?)
Similar ads from the World War II era:
"Got any secret longings?"

"You're fit to be tied!..."
"Boys, clothers, parties, dates"
"Why was I born a Woman?"
"It just isn't fair!"
"How do they do it?"
"And I promised Mom"
More about Kotex artist Irving Nurick
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"Smile - Sister, Smile!" Kotex menstrual pad ad
Unknown magazine
U.S.A., 1940s during World War II

Year after year artist Irving Nurick drew Kotex ads for teenage girls starting in the 1940s. I think they're terrific. Of course, the cartoon kids were WASP to the core and, um, the kids looked like me, actually. That's a fool disclosure.

But melancholy drifts through the innocence. Many of the real boys and girls would die far away from home, blown to bits, dead of disease. Others would lead women into today's world.

I thank the donor!

Below: Foxing - that yellow oxidation of the paper - surrounds the fox, er, girl.
That's Kotex blue you see in her ribbon and dress and my guess in those light eyes.
Wow, if there was ever a Forties girl . . . . See a Twenties girl.
Read the booklet promoted at the end, As One Girl to Another.
Below: Artist Nurick tried to make us believe in an innocent world
in the midst of a horrifying war. He makes us think hard when
we see non-Jewish kids in these ads fighting a war partly fought to
save Jews - and drawn by who I believe was a Jewish artist.
Hmm, wait a second: guys with long eyelashes wearing frilly
aprons are innocent?
A reason to smile: Smyle Hygienic Capsules (U.S.A., 1940-1960s?)
Similar ads by Irving Nurick from the World War II era:
"Got any secret longings?"

"You're fit to be tied!..."
"Boys, clothers, parties, dates"
"Why was I born a Woman?"
"It just isn't fair!"
"How do they do it?"
"And I promised Mom"
More about Kotex artist Irving Nurick

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