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
Ads for teenagers
Many more PADS, BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS
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Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.


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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.


Below: The black-and-white  page measures 10 7/8" x 13 7/8 (about 27.6 x 35.2 cm).

See some smaller Fibs ads from this era.



Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet, 1938, U.S.A.) - 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 - Many more PADS - the very early Kotex tampons Moderne Woman, fax, Nunap, & Fibs, all 1930s.
Many more
BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, PADS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS

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