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, 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)
More
ads for teens: 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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Kotex menstrual pads &
tampons: "Are you in the know?"
etiquette booklet for teenage
girls, 1956, U.S.A.
SarahAnne Hazlewood
generously donated the booklet
to this museum.
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Pp. 26-27. The New
Yorker's E.B. White could have
bottomed off many a column with
this pamphlet's (over-)writing but
especially
"You break
away from babushkas . . . wow
your cellmates with a whammy
chapeau. But it needn't go to
their heads.
Why court ol' dabbil [devil]
dandruff/ Like borrowing combs
or lipstick, trying each other's
hats is scowled on in
cactus-sharp circles!"
on the bottom left of the
right-hand page. This could come
right from smart-talking American
radio in the 1940s-1950s.
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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,
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)
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