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"Sanitary Step-In" (menstrual
underpants) in Vanity Fair magazine,
1928
This is a Hickory "sanitary step-in"
- underpants - from McCall's magazine
(July 1928) magazine, underpants with
a rubber crotch for wear during
menstruation. Aren't the drawing and
calligraphy fantastic? They were done
with Wolfgangus Amadeus Mozartus's (as
he jokingly referred to himself in a
letter, poking fun of the Latinization
of names) dictum in mind that art
should be art, no matter what the
subject. The magazines of the first
forty years of our century are often
fabulous to behold. The Vanity Fair artist
FISH, a woman, by the way,
exemplifies the humor and talent of
the era.
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