See early tampoms Dale, Wix and B-ettes and a bunch of other earlier ones.
Tampax ads:
First Tampax ad? (1936) - actress Susan Dey ad, 1970 - gymnast Mary Lou Retton ad, 1986 - ad "Are you sure I'll still be a virgin?" Feb. 1990 - ad (British, nude) 1992 - Tampax sign (World War II)
Ad Aug 1965 - actress Susan Dey ad, 1970 - gymnast Mary Lou Retton ad, 1986 - ad, British, 1994 (the thong advantage)
See a very early Tampax ad (1936) - a very early Tampax box and contents - more early commercial tampons
See more Tampax items: American ad from August 1965 - nudity in an ad: May 1992 (United Kingdom) - a sign advertising Tampax during World War II - the original patent - an instruction sheet from the 1930s
The influential Dickinson Report (1945) - Early commercial tampons
Ad Aug 1965 - actress Susan Dey ad, 1970 - gymnast Mary Lou Retton ad, 1986 - ad "Are you sure I'll still be a virgin?" Feb. 1990 - ad (British, nude) 1992 - Tampax sign (World War II) - ad, British, 1994 (the thong advantage)
Australian douche ad (ca. 1900) - Fresca douche (date ?) - Kotique douche 1974 ad - Liasan (1) ad - Liasan (2) ad - Lysol 1928 ad - Lysol 1948 ad - Marvel 1926 ad - Midol 1938 ad - Midol 1959 booklet - o.b. German (papyrus tampons) - Pristeen 1969 ad - o.b. German (nude) - Sterizol 1926 ad - Vionell spray 1970 ad (Germany) - the odor page

A British Tampax ad using nudity (1992) - And see other ads directed at teenagers.

See a Modess True or False? ad in The American Girl magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley in "How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad (1955) - Modess . . . . because ads (many dates).
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Playtex Sport menstrual tampon, 2006 (?), U.S.A.
Box, front & back

By popular request - actually, a woman e-mailed and asked to see what this tampon was like - I present this Playtex tampon.

I have two complaints. The plastic applicator is one; I thought we were beyond plastic after plastic applicators covered beaches and didn't deteriorate in a short time, like cardboard. The second is the implicit claim that this is somehow especially appropriate for sports (Tampax also makes a "sport" tampon but my CVS and Shoppers Food Warehouse didn't have it). You mean the other tampons drop out or leak when playing sports? You mean when Tampax claimed in early ads that women could play sports with its tampons the company lied? You mean in the over half century of tampons the companies have just figured out how to enable women to play sports while using a tampon? Like, wow! What else are they telling us that isn't true?

And why are the women (or is that one woman?) wearing dresses? Wouldn't an unambiguous image be shorts or a bathing suit?

But I'm just a guy. The woman who e-mailed me said her girlfriend thought this tampon was great, so there you go. The e-mailer herself has had a hysterectomy so this is sheer curiosity on her part; why buy a box of tampons when you don't need them?

I do like the red on the box and instructions, that dreaded - at least formerly - color American menstrual products manufacturers once thought so inappropriate for using on menstrual products (but see an exception). As I said on a Canadian radio business program, it would be like making the wrapping for toilet paper brown and yellow rather than with white puffy clouds, etc.

 
Below: No, the back of the box is not bigger than the front. I enlarged it to make the text readable.

NEXT: Sides and ends of the box - tampon - instructions

See some Tampax items: British Tampax ad, with nudity, 1992 - "Are you sure I'll still be a virgin?" ad (Feb. 1990) - August 1965 ad (U.S.A.) - a sign advertising Tampax during World War II - the original patent - an instruction sheet from the 1930s - and some other early commercial tampons

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