See an ad for Confidets in the year it appeared, 1961, its booklet for girls, World of a girl.
See some pad dispensers and ads for pads that come with pouches: New Freedom and Whenever, from the U.S.A., and Camelia, from Germany.
Look at disposal bags found in public toilets around the world.
See how women wore a belt (and in a Swedish ad).
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Confidets: the first contoured pads? The first pad sold with disposal bags? (1967, U.S.A., Scott Paper Company)

Consumer Reports magazine wrote that American women preferred Confidets to all other pads in 1978, according to Nancy Friedman in her book Everything You Must Know About Tampons (Berkley Books, New York 1980; Ms. Friedman praised this museum), shoving aside the more famous Kotex and Modess. The reason might have been the tapered shape - women have more room at the front of the vulva for a pad - and the disposal bags; both may have been firsts in the industry.

Scott Paper Company created the brand in 1961 - see an ad for it from that year - but discontinued it in the 1980s. Read its booklet for girls, World of a girl.

See some pad dispensers and ads for pads that come with pouches: New Freedom and Whenever, from the U.S.A., and Camelia, from Germany.
Look at disposal bags found in public toilets around the world.

The absorbent part of the pad is about 8" (20 cm) long.
See why the tab in front is shorter than the rear tab.

According to the yellow sticker, the box of 12 of the above pads cost $1.15, probably on or about 1967, the copyright date on the box.
Below, the back of the box.

 

 The box, above, bears a copyright of 1967.
Below: a later Confidets, showing the narrowing more clearly. See why the tab in front is shorter than the rear tab.
Later, Confidets came in unbelted varieties that stuck into panties with adhesive strips. Confidets disappeared in the mid 1980s.

 

See an ad for Confidets in the year it appeared, 1961, and its booklet for girls, World of a girl. See some pad dispensers and ads for pads that come with pouches: New Freedom and Whenever, from the U.S.A., and Camelia, from Germany. Look at disposal bags found in public toilets around the world.
See more ads for menarche-education booklets: Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1981)
See also the booklets How shall I tell my daughter? (Modess, various dates), Growing up and liking it (Modess, various dates), and Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
And read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets!
See another ad for As One Girl to Another (1942), and the booklet itself.
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