Kotex ad emphasizing shame, 1992See ads for Pursettes: September 1972 (letter testimonial) - August 1973 (letter testimonial) - February 1974 (cartoon story) - August 1974 (cartoon story) - October 1974 (cartoon story) See a 1965 ad for a Pursettes school educational kit - Pursettes Getting to Know Yourself booklet for girls - other teaching booklets: Growing Up and Liking It and How Shall I Tell My Daughter?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 pageCONTRIBUTE to Humor,
Words
and expressions about menstruation and
Would you stop
menstruating if you
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The Kimberly-Clark company sold the early Kotex as flushable down a toilet (see instructions for a Spanish audience) but this stopped up too many toilets, as recounted here. In the early 20th century customers often had to ask a clerk for a product. Kotex ad men insisted stores put Kotex boxes on counters, relieving women of the sometimes embarrassing necessity (probably today too) of asking for it, as pictured in the last drawing - although this conflicts with the text underneath. See a drawing from the early 1920s showing merchants how to sell Kotex. The drawings show again the upper-middle-class-and-above women who could afford Kotex. |
See the entire ad, ad text, and the main illustration.
See more 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, 1981)
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