ADS
for Kotex Lightdays pantiliners in
this kit; they feature named women,
a rarity. But see
famous
women in menstrual hygiene ads.
AD
for Ultra Thin Maxi Pads in this
kit showing what looks like an embarrassed
woman.
PLAYTEX
introduced the evil plastic
applicator for tampons that
you see in this kit.
MANY BOOKLETS
menstrual hygiene companies made
for girls, women and teachers - patent
medicine - a list of
books and articles about
menstruation - videos
What did women do about menstruation
in the past?
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Museum of Menstruation and
Women's Health
Becoming Aware
Educational Kit
Puberty
kit for girls & their
mothers (Kotex, 1992?, U.S.A.)
Box contains booklets for
mothers & their daughters,
and sample menstrual pads &
tampons
Explains menstruation,
adolescence, tampons, girls'
growth, menstrual pads
Lightdays, maxi pad, pantiliner,
overnite
Pads
& tampon in this kit
Security tampon
Below:
The Kotex Security
tampon with plastic
applicator
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Below
& right:
I show 2 aspects
of the wrapping
so you can read the text.
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Below:
The plastic
insertion
device. Playtex
apparently first
developed plastic
applicators to
the
consternation of
ecology-minded
people
everywhere. It's
4 3/4" long
(15.1 cm).
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Below:
The tampon disassembled.
The left-hand
tube measures 3
1/8 x 1/2" (7.9 x 1.2
cm),
the right-hand
tube 2 7/8 x
5/8" (7.9 x 1.5 cm),
the cotton
plug 5/8 x 1
7/8" (1.4 x 4.5 cm),
and the string
is 5 1/2" (13.7 cm)
long.
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Below
& right:
2-sided instruction
sheet in the box, which
measures 3 1/2 x 10"
(8.9 x 25.4 cm).
As on the previous page,
the tampon absorbency
concerns reflect the
reaction to the TOXIC
SHOCK CRISIS
in the late 70s and
early 80s as does
the information about
toxic shock.
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Below:
Under #1, Kotex
misspells vagina as vagaina,
maybe to bond
with kids who
would also misspell
it. Kotex
understands (bottom
of the page).
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Copyright 2009
Harry Finley
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