See early tampoms Dale,
Wix and B-ettes and a bunch of other
earlier ones.
Ad Aug 1965 -
actress Susan Dey ad,
1970 - gymnast Mary Lou
Retton ad, 1986 - ad,
British, 1994 (the thong advantage)
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
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.
Sides & ends of the box
The concern with toxic shock dates
to the Rely tampon
(and others) crisis of 1980; companies
sometime afterward agreed on
absorbency standards and warned users
to restrict the time they wore the
tampons.
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