See more flushable pads: Society
(American?, 1920s - 1930s?) and New Freedom (American,
1971)
Kotex ad emphasizing shame,
1992
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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Many 1930s faces look alike, not
only in menstrual ads
Certain eras have certain faces, in
illustration anyway. The 1920s and
1930s favored two well known in
advertising and magazine-story
illustration, when magazines were a
major source of fiction. Below are the
formally
dressed, strong-jawed types readers saw
all the time, with large eyes and
noses, for the males, anyway. And the
men usually had closed mouths, probably
indicating control of emotion.
Most famous of
all were the men in the Arrow Collar (later, shirt) ads
in the U.S.A., (below, second row,
at right) by illustrator Joseph C.
Leyendecker, probably a homosexual,
who lived for decades with his
handsome business manager, a former
model.
Contrast these with the childish,
often identical faces in the Kotex
series Are You in the
Know? As an illustrator myself,
I know that drawing one face many
times is easier than coming up with
different ones. And I think artists
and illustrators, and people in
general, tend to favor certain looks.
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Above,
from the cover of a Peg's Paper,
1931, U.K. (whole
cover). Below,
from a probably 1930s magazine ad,
U.S.A. (whole
page, with comments). Bottom, from the same Peg's Paper.
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Above, an Arrow Shirt man,
by German-American illustrator Joseph
C. Leyendecker.
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The caption: ". . .
until he saw a car pull up and
jealousy filled him as he saw another
man get out with the girl he himself
loved."
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See more flushable pads: Society
(American?, 1920s - 1930s?) and New Freedom
(American, 1971)
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