Other early-campaign ads: general discussion and
prototype ad - January
1921 - May 1921 - July 1921
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Small Kotex menstrual pad ad, 1920s,
U.S.A.
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This photocopy of the original measures 6
1/8 x 9 5/8". The original is in the State
Historical Society of Wisconsin. Does Nice mean well to do, those who can afford not to wash their menstrual rags but toss them? Kotex prove their worth: "Kotex" is used as a plural much as the British use "government" with a plural verb. Today Americans would say "Kotex proves its worth." Sold wherever women trade. Another outdated usage. Americans would say "shop" instead of "trade" today. Look at the K in Kotex - and then look at the way the writer of the text makes K. It's the same. Was that common in cursive writing of the time or did the writer imitate the Kotex K? If accepted, this text was probably fitted into a graphic as with the text on a printed ad at right, which has a different text. The 50 in lower left probably means number 50 in the series of ads. Someone wrote what looks like Extra at lower right. |
Below:
A printed similar-format ad undoubtedly
from the same time, probably the early
1920s. See a larger version. |
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Other early Kotex ads: general discussion and prototype ad - January 1921 - May 1921 - July 1921
Other first-campaign ads: general
discussion and prototype ad -
January
1921 - May
1921 - July
1921
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