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See ads for
menarche-education booklets: Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933),
Tampax tampons (1970,
with Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley),
and German o.b.
tampons (lower ad, 1970s)
And read Lynn Peril's series about
these and similar booklets!
See more Kotex items: First ad
(1921) - ad 1928 (Sears
and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller ads
(first real person in amenstrual 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 pag
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Lucky Strike cigarettes ad, 1933
I found the ad below on the
other side of the Phantom
Kotex ad; it's from an
unknown magazine, with copyrighted
ads dated 1933.
Someone explained to me that as
a diversion from Americans'
sorrows from the Depression in the
1930s, Hollywood made movies
featuring people dressed as if
they had all the money in the
world. Here
are more Depression-era
Americans living in a dream world,
maybe to escape from menstruation
as well as poverty.
Readers could smile at the
couple below making diamonds and
gold out of smoke (look at the
enlargement at the bottom of the
page); the rich could do anything
they wanted.
Howard
Chandler Christy, who
painted the picture below, was one
of several illustrators known to
most Americans of this era - can
you name an illustrator of today?
- that included James
Montgomery Flagg (of "I Want YOU For
[the] U.S. Army" poster
fame) and J.
C. Leyendecker, who
created the fabulous Arrow shirt
illustrations.
The two people below have faces
common to illustration of the
time, but note the feminine eyes
and mouth of the man.
By the way, readers had to turn the
magazine sideways to read the ad,
which ran sitting on the right
end.
Another BTW: ever hear of the
Shifters? I didn't either until I
read the New York Times article "A
Ponzi Scheme for Flappers"
about a nutty American fad 11
years before this ad.
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The smoke forms an
engagement ring, at right, and a
wedding ring. The guy's good,
especially puffing with his mouth
shut!
But is he, um, just
blowing smoke about marriage?
"Forever and ever . . " Yeh,
right. Watch out, lady!
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See a 1920s ad for Old Dutch Cleanser,
a further funny digression from the theme
of this Web site.
See ads for
menarche-education booklets: Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933),
Tampax tampons (1970,
with Susan Dey),
Personal Products
(1955, with Carol Lynley), and German o.b. tampons
(lower ad, 1981)
See also the booklets
How shall I tell my
daughter? (Modess, various dates), Growing
up and liking it (Modess, various
dates),
and Marjorie May's
Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
And read Lynn Peril's series about
these and similar booklets!
See another ad
for As One Girl to Another (1942), and the booklet itself.
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