Read some American
wartime "Are you in the know?" ads: May 1944 and "and I promised Mom -,"
May 1943, and read
something about "Are you in the know?" ads
in general.
More ads for teens (see also introductory page for
teenage advertising): Are
you in the know?
(Kotex napkins and Quest napkin powder,
1948, U.S.A.), Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and belts,
1949, U.S.A.) Are
you in the know?
(Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.), Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and belts,
1964, U.S.A.), Freedom
(1990, Germany),
Kotex (1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
See ads for
menarche-education booklets: Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with
Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and
German o.b. tampons
(lower ad, 1970s)
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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The Museum of Menstruation
and Women's Health
"Are you in the know?" Kotex menstrual
napkin ad in wartime Canada (July
29, 1944, Canada)
Kotex ran a series of ads (see
links, above left) for American
teenagers that are priceless for the
language and customs observed as well
as the segue into menstruation. Others
appeared in Canada with Canadian like
themes, the one here.
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I believe R. C. A. F.
means "Royal Canadian Air
Force."
See Quest
powder and "As
One Girl To Another," advertised
above.
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