More things for travelers: Venus pads, (1930s-1940s?)SEE the directory of all tampons on this site.Read most of a 1928 Australian edition of the Kotex booklet Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, and read three mid-1930s booklets by Kotex, including a much-changed version of Marjorie May's twelfth Birthday.Read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets! And see covers of the booklets How shall I tell my daughter?, Growing up and liking it, and Personal DigestRead the whole menarche booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940).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 pageDIRECTORY of all topics (See also the SEARCH ENGINE, bottom of page.)CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation
and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
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Traveling has always been a problem for women who menstruate. Disposable pads like Kotex, in 1921, greatly eased the burden by allowing women to throw out pads rather than keeping them, somewhere, to wash later. In the late 19th century women could buy small devices to take with them to burn cloth pads in hotel rooms or in rooms without fireplaces.In 2000 women can often find free pads and tampons on airplanes, such as the ones below, freeing them of carrying pads or tampons with them. |
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Note the flowers, a common association with menstruation, not only because of the concealment of odor and the association with something "delicate" and "clean." "Flowers" was once a word meaning menstruation, although I doubt the manufacturer knew that.Here's another flower.From the U.S.A.A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University kindly donated the box in 2000. |
From the U.S.A.A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University kindly donated the box in 2000. |
From the U.S.A.A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University kindly donated the box in 2000. |
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From the U.S.A.A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University kindly donated the box in 2000. |
Back of box at left. From the U.S.A.A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University kindly donated the box in 2000. |
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From the U.S.A.A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University kindly donated the box in 2000. |
Back of box at left. From the U.S.A.A first-year woman student at Northern Arizona University kindly donated the box in 2000. |
