More things for travelers: Venus pads, (1930s-1940s?)
Read most of a 1928 Australian edition of
the Kotex booklet Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, and read three
mid-1930s booklets by Kotex, including a much-changed version of Marjorie
May's twelfth Birthday.
Read the whole menarche booklet As One Girl to
Another (Kotex, 1940).
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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Boxed menstrual pads and tampons for travelers
Traveling has always been a problem for women who menstruate. Disposable
pads like Kotex, in 1921, greatly eased the burden
by allowing women to throw out pads rather than keeping them, somewhere,
to wash later. In the late 19th century women could buy small devices to
take with them to burn cloth pads in hotel rooms or in rooms without fireplaces.
In 2000 women can often find free pads and tampons on airplanes, such
as the ones below, freeing them of carrying pads or tampons with them.
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Note the flowers, a common association
with menstruation, not only because of the concealment of odor and the association
with something "delicate" and "clean." "Flowers"
was once a word meaning menstruation, although I doubt the manufacturer
knew that.
Here's another flower.
From the U.S.A.
A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University
kindly donated the box in 2000.
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From the U.S.A.
A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University
kindly donated the box in 2000.
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From the U.S.A.
A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University
kindly donated the box in 2000.
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From the U.S.A.
A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University
kindly donated the box in 2000.
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Back of box at left. From the U.S.A.
A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University
kindly donated the box in 2000.
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From the U.S.A.
A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University
kindly donated the box in 2000.
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Back of box at left. From the U.S.A.
A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University
kindly donated the box in 2000.
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More things for travelers: Venus pads, (1930s-1940s?)
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