Tour the former Museum of
Menstruation in my house.
Belt topics
See how women wore
a belt (and in a Swedish ad). See a modern belt for
a washable pad and a page from the 1946-47 Sears
catalog showing a great variety - ad
for Hickory belts,
1920s? - Modess belts
in Personal Digest (1966)
See a Modess True
or False? ad in The American Girl
magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley in
"How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad
(1955) - Modess . . .
. because ads (many dates).
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Norwegian exhibit about menstruation &
the company history of the Scandinavian
tampon and menstrual pad company SCA
Mølnlycke
To celebrate the fiftieth
anniversary of the SCA
(formerly SABA) Mølnlycke
company in Scandinavia,
which sells Libresse menstrual
pads and o.b. tampons in
Scandinavia, the company in the
mid-1990s held a wonderful exhibit
about menstruation in the city
museum of Vestfold, Norway. (See
more about the company.)
A work by Renoir graces the
cover of the four-page brochure
visitors take away (above), which
bears the title Kvinnens
Hemmelighet - fra papyrusruller
til moderne bindteknologi
(Women's
Secret: From Papyrus Scrolls to
Modern Pad Technology).
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It's occurred to me that
the lithograph The
Scream, by
Norway's own artist Edvard
Munch, might be the more
appropriate cover painting
for many Americans.
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I learned of the exhibit when a
reader of the Norwegian travel
magazine Vagabond
sent me his copy of the booklet. Vagabond had run
an article about this museum,
MUM.
Merethe
Slensvik, of the SCA company,
kindly supplied all the
material shown in my
"exhibit," except for the
brochure above. See
the SCA Web
site.
Later, the company
profiled me and American
astronaut Sally Ride in its
magazine. Talk about
flattering!
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