Cellucotton, early newspaper reports
and later Kotex ads
Kotex box and pad, 1930s
- ads, 1930
& 1931 - Phantom Kotex ad, with ad for
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, a menarche
booklet, 1932 - Kotex
doesn't show! 3 ads for Kotex
menstrual pads, 1927, 1932, 1955 (U.S.A.) -
Kotex doesn't show! #2: June 1932 - ad,
1932, for Kotex and
Kleenex - Phantom Kotex, July, 1932 -
picture in ad of Mary
Pauline Callender, author of the
Marjorie May booklets (more
biographical info) - 1932, Phantom Kotex - leaflet ad for
Wondersoft pads, belt, Marjorie May's
Twelfth Birthday, 1933 - 1933, Phantom Kotex - box and pads, 1930s?
- wrapped Kotex pad
for West Disinfecting Company dispenser (mid
1930s)
Many more PADS
First Kotex
magazine ad? January 1921 - the first Kotex ad campaign
(1921) - a prototype
("To Save Men's Lives
Science Discovered Kotex,") for the
first ad, about 1920 - first newspaper ad? (1920) and early
newspaper ads
The very early
Kotex tampons Moderne
Woman, fax, Nunap, & Fibs, all 1930s. Kotex second stick tampons
(U.S.A.) & its ads,
1960s to 1970s - Kotams mesh-string tampon
with 2-tube insertion device (1944?) - also
called Kotams:
first Kotex stick tampon, 1960-65 - Comfortube tampons
(1967), box, tampons
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 - videos
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The Museum of Menstruation and
Women's Health
Ad for Kotex
pads, 1939,
in an unknown American
magazine, month unknown
Do you
wonder what an average woman
looked like in 1939?
Well, look
somewhere else.
The creature lounging below is not
in her dorm room at East-West
North-South State College. No,
she's suffering the late stage of
the Great Depression in her Park
Avenue penthouse. Or, like, in the
one overlooking the polo field at
Yale?
You hear that the media portrayed
women in that uneconomical time in
glamorous scenes to lighten the
feelings of the 99 percent. Kotex
(and others)
had long put fancy women into its
ads (here),
which I think diminished during
World War II. On the other hand,
they could hardly have shown
average women in expensive
magazines that average women
wouldn't buy.
See a Kotex box
and a pad it held
probably from the 1930s.
Yes, the ad mentions Kotex's Fibs tampon but there
were earlier
tampons from Kotex.
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