See more Kotex items: First ad
(1921; scroll to bottom of page) - ad, 1928 (Sears and Roebuck
catalog) - Lee
Miller ads (first real person in a
menstrual 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
"To guard against
emergencies"
Kotex ad, September, 1921
The Ladies Home Journal, U.S.A.
Below: The
full-page black-and-white ad
measures 11 x 14" (27.9 x 35.6 cm).
Did you notice that "Kotex"
are is used as a plural?
If I'm reading this conversion
engine right, $0.60 in 1921 is
worth
from $6.26
to $135.00 in 2013
dollars, about 50
cents a pad at the
cheapest.
Even at the low end no wonder these ads
pitched Kotex to the rich-looking
ladies
nibbling sandwiches below or
lounging
about doing nothing or floating
down a staircase or chastising
a maid. (But maybe those were
exactly the people who read The Ladies
Home Journal.)
About 14 years later an early commercial
tampon, B-ettes,
cost 25 cents for 12,
around $4.24 in 2013 dollars, maybe 35 cents a 'pon.
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Below:
Am I wasting your
time by examining her sandwich?
I spent too much time looking at the
sandwich and her mouth - it's my lunch
time, too - to
not ask, Is the
white area below her upper lip her
teeth or a
reflection off her lower lip?
And, she ate the upper corner off the
poorly cut
sandwich; the lower end of the
diagonal slice at right should have
angled
more toward her fingernail. Maybe an
inexperienced picnic participant cut it
when
the cook had the morning off. But it's a
beautiful drawing.
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See more Kotex items: First ad
(1921; scroll to bottom of page) - ad, 1928 (Sears and Roebuck
catalog) -
Lee Miller ads
(first real person in a menstrual hygiene ad,
1928)
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