More Tampax ads:
Ad Aug 1965 - actress Susan
Dey ad, 1970 - gymnast Mary Lou Retton ad,
1986 - ad "Are you sure I'll still be a virgin?"
Feb. 1990 - ad (British, nude) 1992 - Tampax sign (World War II) - ad,
British, 1994 (the thong advantage)
See more Tampax items: American
ad from August 1965 - nudity in an ad: May 1992 (United Kingdom) - a sign
advertising Tampax during World War II - the original patent
- an instruction sheet from the 1930s
See a Modess True or False? ad in The American
Girl magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley
in "How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad (1955) - Modess . . . . because ads (many dates).

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Tampax menstrual tampon ad, U.K., May 1992
Tampax advertising, especially in Britain, has come a long way from
the first ad of 1936 (maybe this one).
Nudity is nonexistent in American menstrual
hygiene advertising. Heaven forbid that someone should link menstruation
with a nude woman! European advertising has associated the two for decades.
See some humorous tampon ads from Britain.
Again, the British display a better sense of humor about menstruation than
the Americans and many other peoples.
This two-page ad - the strange breaks in the headline mark the edges
of the pages, an artifact of the design process - is from May 1992.
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