Panties: Modess "Sanitary
Shield" (two-band pad holder in
crotch; 1970s; U.S.A.)
Modess "Panti-kini"
(two-band holder to hold pad in crotch;
1960s-1970s, U.S.A.)
Many more women's underpants
Many puberty educational booklets for girls
from other companies & organizations,
U.S.A. and other countries
Wrapped Modess pad
for dispenser (1930s?) - Modess ad, U.K., 1936 - True or False?
Modess ad in The American Girl magazine,
January 1947
See also Ads for
Teens
"A
Teaching Guide for Menstrual Hygiene" (cover, 1962,
Personal Products Corp., U.S.A.)
"A Teacher's Guide to
Feminine Hygiene" (cover, 1973,
Personal Products Corp., U.S.A.)
"Educational Material
on Menstruation furnished by the makers of
Tampax" (1966) U.S.A.
Folder with huge
number of information sheets, etc.
"Educational Portfolio
on Menstrual Hygiene" (1968)
U.S.A. Teacher's kit for Modess sanitary
napkins, menstrual tampons and
panties (mostly complete)
"From Fiction to Fact:
a teaching guide about puberty,
menstruation and the human reproductive
system" (complete
1966, 1986, Tambrands,
U.S.A. The 1966 version is part of the huge
"Educational Material
on Menstruation furnished by the makers of
Tampax," 1966)
"Teacher's kit"
(complete, early
1950s, Personal Products Corp., U.S.A.)
How
shall I tell my daughter? [Daughter
in the 1969 edition] (complete
booklets, 1963, 1969, Personal
Products Co.) See covers
of
Modess booklets. Excerpt about how
to fasten a pad to a belt and about sanitary
panties & a funny story from the 1969
booklet.
Modess (Johnson
& Johnson, U.S.A.): 1927 Gilbreth report to
Johnson & Johnson about Modess -
newspaper ads 1927-28
- "Silent Purchase"
ad, June 1928 - ad, 1928
- ad, April 1929 ("Don't
weaken,
Mother") - ad, June 1929 ("Never mind, Mother,
you'll learn") - ad about concealing
pad, 1930 - ad
compared with Kotex ad, 1931 - ad, 1931 - wrapped Modess pad
for dispenser, 1930s? - Ad, U.K., 1936 - True or False? ad
in The American Girl magazine, January 1947
- Australian ad,
1957 - ad (1956)
with "Modess . . . . because" ad
incorporated into it - ad for "Growing Up
and Liking It" booklet (1963, Modess) -
actress Carol Lynley
in "How shall I tell my daughter?" booklet
ad (1955) - Modess . .
. . because ads (many dates) - French ad, 1970s?
- ad, French,
1972, photo by David Hamilton - Personal Digest
leaflets (6), 1966-67: describe Modess
products - How Modess
Sanitary Napkins Began: excerpts
from"A Company That Cares: One Hundred Year
Illustrated History of Johnson and Johnson"
Booklets
menstrual hygiene companies made for girls,
women and teachers - patent
medicine - a list
of books and articles about menstruation - videos
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Nikini ad
(Woman's Weekly magazine,
U.K., 23 Nov. 1974)
(sanitary
napkin, pads & towels, pants,
panties, loop, twist, bunch
up, stain, protection, pad, belts,
menstruation, menstrual, period,
cycle)
Manufacturers have devised
myriad ways to hold pads in place,
which can shift and twist and leak
and give women much grief. Below
see one solution.
I thank the donor!
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Below:
None
of the activities mentioned below
involve employment
outside
the house.
The company - society? - probably
regarded women as housewives.
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Below:
Exercise is also the point of this
racier Scandinavian
ad probably for Saba pads
from the 1970s.
The whole ad consists of many
positions of the woman that
demonstrate how
the pad doesn't shift.
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