See more German Carefree ads.
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More ads for teens (see also introductory page for teenage advertising): Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and Quest napkin powder, 1948, U.S.A.), Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and belts, 1949, U.S.A.) Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.), Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and belts, 1964, U.S.A.), Freedom (1990, Germany), Kotex (1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
See ads for menarche-education booklets: Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1970s)
See also the booklets How shall I tell my daughter? (Modess, various dates), Growing up and liking it (Modess, various dates), and Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
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
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
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Carefree ad for panty pads, genital washing liquid, and for genital cleaning tissue
Germany, Brigitte magazine, 1991

Introduction and
Left-hand page

Don't you think this ad is simplicity itself?

What more could you want?

Well, I don't know what you could want but the company wants another page of detailed, dense paragraphs. Just as with a similar ad somewhere on this site, the facing page - below is the left-hand page - seems disconnected typographically and by layout from the commercial-looking page below, maybe to trick the reader into thinking that an unbiased authority recommends Carefree.

Below: Amazingly, this is one ad. The right-hand page dissociates itself in lack of color, layout and typographically from the left-hand page. Do you think it's to deceive the reader?
See the left-hand page below and the right-hand page, translated, here.
See more German Carefree ads.
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Below: The page measures 8 1/2 x 11" (21.6 x 27.9 cm). Below, my translation.




Carefree. Feel fresh and clean.
The whole day.





















Left: Nature decides how fresh a flower remains throughout the day.
Right: A woman herself decides how fresh she feels during the day.













Carefree panty pads and genital washing liquid and genital cleaning tissue.

For the well-groomed woman. Every day.
See the translated facing right-hand page here.
See more German Carefree ads. Compare some other colorful pads and tampons for teens, funny British Carefree panty liner ads, a box of German tampons similar to the pads below, and see advertising directed at teenagers.

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