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 folded pad right out
of the box.
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Below:
From the side. Pads were
quite thick until recent
decades, which women often
complained about. Can't
blame them. Read more
early complaints.
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Below:
The two sides of the pads
stretched out. Elsewhere, Kotex
told women to wear the blue line
away from the body but
that's not on or in this box,
which has no directions. The longer tab
was in back.
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End | Box
- pad | Kotex
ad
from 1960.
- Now you
are 10, Kotex menarche &
puberty booklet published the year
before the copyright of this box -
Kotex belts
- All pads.
© 2007 Harry Finley. It is
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any of the work on
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