More French menstrual ads & products:
Tampax, 1938
Camellia, 1970s
Kotex Freedom pads, 1970s
Modess, 1972, David Hamilton photo
Rubella, 1973
Rubella magazine ad (undated)
Nana, one-page ad featuring just a man (1980s?) - two-page spread
featuring a different man (1989)
Nett,1985, ad showing white bathing suit.
O.b., 1989
Vania Girl's, 1991, panty pad and tampon
Tampax Satin Learner's Kit, 2001, in 3 languages:
English. Booklet, pads & tampons
Trousse de l'étudiante French
Estuche de Aprendizaje Spanish
See also Ads for Teens
Booklets menstrual hygiene
companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent
medicine - a list of books and articles about
menstruation
 
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French ads from the 2000s
Publicité, annonce français
Vania Kotydia noir protège-slip (Avril 2002)
Vania Kotydia black panty pads (April 2002)
sanitary napkin, tampon,
pad, belts, menstruation,
women's health, ads for teenagers, period, panty
As one would expect from the French, these ads are beautifully designed.
The points are simple and stretch back through the misty beginnings of menstrual
hygiene: size, comfort and invisibility as far as possible.
I thank the French donor for her scans of the six ads!
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Below: Headline text:
"I'm finally coordinated everywhere, boop-oop-a-doop! New black Vania
Kotydia panty pad."
The American cartoon character Betty Boop dates from 1930,
typically wore black and would have appreciated
black panty pads rather than the large white pads
of the time. Commercial tampons were about to appear
and Ms. Boop would have used them, casting aside worries about virginity (she was naughty), priests'
warnings (hah!) and anything else, an ideal
tampon customer.
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