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Very Personally Yours (Kotex, Kimberly-Clark Corporation)
puberty & menstruation booklet for girls, 1981, U.S.A.

This booklet is part of a series of Kotex puberty booklets (earlier versions: 1948, 1961); earlier series extended to the 1920s in America and elsewhere (for example Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday and As One Girl To Another). Kotex was not the only company that made them (see links to the left and above).

The booklets tended to become more informal as the years passed, probably reflecting their eras. Look at the boom box in the upper right corner of the cover; according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary the paired words entered English the same year as this booklet appeared, 1981.

See similar booklets on this site.


Below: Front cover (p. 1), which measures 6 x 8 1/2" (15.4 x 21.6 cm). The back cover (p. 24) is blank except for the number 281 in the lower left corner.
A bigger boom box sits below this cover.
 
 
Below: If you look to the far right of the girl's knuckles (right below her mouth) you'll see this name, KELLEY, on a line. I assume it's the artist. I'm glad the company let her/him get credit; this didn't happen often with artists in publications like this.
 

NEXT: cover/back cover 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16-17 18-19 20-21 22-23
Read the earlier versions: 1948, 1961 | See also How shall I tell my daughter? and Personal Digest and
read the whole booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940). Whole list of such booklets.


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