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Kotex menstrual pad ad, October 1928
This advertisement shows the
persistence of concern women have when
menstruating. We read the same
concerns today.
It appeared just three months after
Lee Miller unwittingly made the first one
for menstrual products to feature a
real person, also for Kotex; it might show the
second actual person to appear in a
menstrual hygiene ad. The
pose, in its elegance, matches
Miller's, who was photographed by the
great American photographer Edward
Steichen. He could have also made this
picture.
Long
download time!
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The words in the
ad appear enlarged above.
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