See more underpants
on this site.
And read Lynn Peril's series
about these and similar booklets!
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) -
ad 1928 (Sears and
Roebuck catalog) - Lee
Miller ads (first real person in
amenstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928,
Australian edition; there are many links here to
Kotex items) - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls;
Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish
showing disposal
method - box
from about 1969 - "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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"Sanitary Bloomers"
(underpants for menstruation)
from the Sears, Roebuck catalog, 1922
These are "bloomers" - underpants -
for menstruating women to wear at
night, sold by Sears, Roebuck and
Company in 1922. This is an early
brief-style underpants, possibly
derived from babies' diapers. The
style reappeared
in the Sears catalog in 1935 as
regular underpants for women. American
women typically wore loose-fitting
long-leg underpants in the earlier
part of the twentieth century; they
wore similar underpants with an open crotch
in the 19th century, probably to make
defecation and urination easy.
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See a sanitary bloomer from the 1930 Savage catalog. See
more underpants on
this site.
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