See ultimate examples of the horror of allowing men to discover a woman
is having her period (shame 1 and shame
2)
And read Lynn Peril's series about these
and similar booklets!
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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Ad for Whenever menstrual pads (September 1987, U.S.A.)
By the 1990s many companies world wide put small
pouches into their packages of pads so a woman could carry a single
one, concealing it, and use it to contain the used pad before throwing it
away.
Note "thoroughly discreet" ("discreet"
appears three times in this ad) and "incognito"
among the large text; they appeal to concerns of American women, who are
more worried about being suspected of menstruating than women in many European
countries; compare a Camelia ad from Germany.
And see ultimate examples of the horror of allowing men to discover a woman
is having her period (shame 1 and shame
2).
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