Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.mum.org   American ads for disposables before Kotex. More Kotex ads from 1923: January, July, November. See the All Kotex pad items; Kotex tampons. HOMEPAGE CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could? Some MUM site links: HOMEPAGE | LIST OF ALL TOPICS | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | Email the museum | Privacy on this site | Who runs this museum?? | Amazing women! | Art of menstruation | Artists (non-menstrual) | Asbestos | Belts | Bidets | Founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | Books: menstruation and menopause (and reviews) | Cats | Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | Contraception and religion | Costumes | Menstrual cups | Cup usage | Dispensers | Douches, pain, sprays | Essay directory | Extraction | Facts-of-life booklets for girls | Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | Founder/director biography | Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux | Humor | Huts | Links | Masturbation | Media coverage of MUM | Menarche booklets for girls and parents | Miscellaneous | Museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | Odor | Olor | Pad directory | Patent medicine | Poetry directory | Products, some current | Puberty booklets for girls and parents| Religion | Religión y menstruación | Your remedies for menstrual discomfort | Menstrual products safety | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | Science | Shame | Slapping, menstrual | Sponges | Synchrony | Tampon directory | Early tampons | Teen ads directory | Tour of the former museum (video) | Underpants & panties directory | Videos, films directory | Words and expressions about menstruation | Would you stop menstruating if you could? | What did women do about menstruation in the past? | Washable pads | Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site. Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación. MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH Kotex menstrual napkin ad, August, 1923, The American Girl magazine (for Girl Scouts) Old time America! I can almost smell the air - and the horse - in the evocative drawing, which looks like a stage set. Traveling women had problems using washable pads; disposables like Kotex helped with the problem (see American ads for disposables before Kotex and a traveling kit for menstruating women). See a roughly contemporary British disposable in a tube designed for travelers. It's surprising that Kotex, which had started selling its menstrual pads in 1920, placed this two adult-looking ad in The American Girl magazine, published for Girl Scouts. The only concession in the text I can find to girls are the words "young women" in the July issue (here). Both ads feature women at least in their late teens, at least as far as I can determine. But clothing of the time could be deceiving me. But see an adult-looking "girl" on the cover of a Kotex Marjorie May booklet. Menarche did occur a bit earlier in 1923 but I don't think by enough to account for the difference. Kotex probably had not yet fine-tuned its advertising to girls yet. This is not the American Girl magazine of today, by the way. See more about the pad dispenser mentioned in the ad and see a wrapped pad for dispensers probably from the 1930s. More Kotex ads from 1923: January, July, November. All Kotex pad items and history; Kotex tampons. Next: More Kotex ads from 1923: January, July, November. All Kotex pad items and history; Kotex tampons. American ads for disposables before Kotex. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.mum.org © 2007 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute any of the work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org