Kotex ad from 1960.
Now
you are 10, Kotex menarche &
puberty booklet published the year before
the copyright of this box.
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND
WOMEN'S HEALTH
Kotex menstrual single napkin
& box, 1959
Single pads in boxes or
packages, probably for dispensers,
might have started with Kotex in
the 1920s.(See a dispenser pad
from the 1930s.)
I suspect later the single pad
appeared for other purposes such
as airplane toilets and for free.
But this one cost $0.05, cheap.
The pad has the traditional tabs
- pieces of material on either
side - to attach it to a belt the
woman wore around her waist, like
here.
The longer
side was in back. Sticky
pads arrived in the early 1970s
(see here
& here).
See a
Kotex ad from 1960; Now you are
10,
Kotex menarche & puberty
booklet published the year
before the copyright of this
box; and Kotex belts. All pads.
The retired teacher who has
contributed so much to this site
kindly sent the box. Thanks!
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Below:
The box. Missing sides are
identical to their
counterparts. It measures 3 x
4.25 x 1" (7.5 x 10.5 x 2.5 cm).
The colors don't match because of
my scanning and Photoshopping.
The rose probably means
"smelling like a rose," better
than you know what. But flowers in
general were common in menstrual
packaging and advertising. My
favorite example is the notorious
Camelia,
notorious for the prissy Americans
anyway. See Camelia's use of red,
rare in America until recently.
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from 1960.
- Now you
are 10, Kotex menarche &
puberty booklet published the year
before the copyright of this box -
Kotex belts
- All pads.
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