Kotex ad emphasizing shame,
1992
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) -
ad 1928 (Sears and
Roebuck catalog) - Lee
Miller ads (first real person in
amenstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928,
Australian edition; there are many links here to
Kotex items) - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls;
Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish
showing disposal
method - box
from about 1969 - "Are
you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See
more ads on the Ads for
Teenagers main page
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Kotex & Tampax boxes and a
douche bag and nozzle for a doll's
house - well,
maybe not for the house
It's hard to imagine a girl playing
with her dolls and these boxes, but if
so, more power to her and her parents!
The unknown maker of the Kotex -
Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the Kotex
manufacturer? - based both boxes
(below left) on Kotex boxes from the
1970s and 1980s, many of which used
flowers in the design (see Kotex
belts from this time with
flowers, part of this same
"campaign.") "Cottage Industries" made
the douche.
A retired teacher kindly donated
the douche to the museum.
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Tiny boxes for a doll
house
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This label accompanied
the mini-boxes.
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Above are Kotex boxes
from the 1980s (top) and 1974
(bottom). Each
box is 7.38" wide x 8" high (about
18.7 x 20.5 cm) and thus not
to scale with the doll's boxes.
Kotex made many boxes in these decades
with roses
on them, the common flower motif,
seemingly about as unmenstrual as you
can get. But the
word "flowers" once meant
menstruation, and
manufacturers have often used them
with their products. And better
"smelling like a rose" than otherwise
(here's more about odor).
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See another ad for
As One Girl to Another (1942), and the booklet itself.
See 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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