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, 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 Women's Secret:
From Papyrus Scrolls to Modern Pad Technology. 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.
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.
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