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COMPARE THIS FOLDER with an ad for Kotex pads, belts, & Marjorie May puberty education booklet in a never-used American 1930s sewing pattern for womens sports trousers.
AND WITH: 1992: Kotex Curved Maxi pad, Maxi pad, Thin maxi, UltraThin Maxi, OverNites pads, Lightdays pantiliner (and Longs) in Becoming Aware Educational Kit (for girls)
Kotex doesn't show! 3 ads for Kotex menstrual pads, 1927, 1932, 1955 (U.S.A.)
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
HOMEPAGE |
LIST OF ALL TOPICS |
MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Contraceptive drugs, old |
Contraceptive douche & sponges |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory |
Founder/director biography |
Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux |
Humor |
Huts |
Links |
Masturbation |
Media coverage of MUM |
Menarche booklets for girls and parents |
Miscellaneous |
Museum future |
Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
Odor |
Olor |
Pad, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH

Kotex products shown in 6-page folder, 1996, U.S.A.

tampon, pad, sanitary napkin, panty, belt, menstruation, menstrual cycle, women,


First page & discussion.
Below:
Click on the small pictures to see enlargements.
 
Below: Kotex Freedom pads: nude woman (France, 1970s?) and a French ad from 1990 showing white pants, nude women with body paint (Germany, 1990) and another one
New Freedom (U.S.A.), an early beltless pad (by Kotex); box bears a copyright of 1970 - ad November 21, 1971, The Milwaukee Journal - ad using named person, 1978 - promotion leaflet (date unknown) - ad, 1985, showing disposal bag.
The copyright date at lower left is 1996.
 

NEXT | COMPARE THIS FOLDER with an ad for Kotex pads, belts, & Marjorie May puberty education booklet
in a never-used American 1930s sewing pattern for womens sports trousers.
AND WITH: 1992: Kotex Curved Maxi pad, Maxi pad, Thin maxi, UltraThin Maxi,
OverNites pads, Lightdays pantiliner (and Longs) in Becoming Aware Educational Kit (for girls)

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