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 page
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Underpants for
menstruation (hygienisches
Beinkleid)
designed by gynecologist J.
Großmann (German, 1888)
This suggestion for "sanitary
underpants" by a German gynecologist
shows how open, or crotchless,
underpants, common at this time in
America and elsewhere, could
accommodate a menstrual pad. The
design uses hooks
on the outside of the underpants
onto which rings on the pad holder
attach.
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From left to right: Underpants, pad
holder, washable (reusable) cotton
pad. Note the rings on the
ends of the pad holder, which attach
to hooks on the outside of the
underpants.
(The drawings are from
"Zur Geschichte
der Unterwäsche,"
1980s?, Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
the catalog of an exhibit of the
history of underwear at the museum of
the city of Frankfurt am Main,
Germany. Imagine a city, state or
federal museum in American holding
such an exhibit. I can't. People would
be predicting the end of American
civilization - Wait! A woman
already predicted that when I opened
this museum, in 1994!)
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