Kotex second stick
tampons (U.S.A.) & their ads (also July 1972), 1960s to 1970s - "Remember
how simple life used to be?" ads for the stick tampon - Kotams
mesh-string tampon with 2-tube insertion device
(1944?) - also called Kotams: first Kotex stick
tampon, 1960-65 - Comfortube tampons (1967),
box, tampons - the very early Moderne
Woman, fax,
Nunap, & Fibs,
all 1930s. See also Fems from Australian Kimberly-Clark,
1967.
 
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH
Stick tampon
Kotex, Canada, 1969
Kimberly-Clark
Instructions & box in French and English
tampon, stick, Canada, French, menstruation, menstrual cycle, period
women, health, Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark
Kotex in the 1960s produced a tampon on a stick, Kotams!
It was a good and simple idea. The later version here is almost identical.
As with many products in Canada, it's designed with two
languages in mind, French and English.
In the 1970s Japan created a stick tampon
that the user assembled herself just as she
would have to assemble the infamous origami tampon.
These must have been part of a campaign to keep Japan's women's brains and
fingers nimble - or else drive them crazy.
Procter & Gamble kindly donated the 1969
box with tampons and the former Tambrands generously contributed the 1977 tampon & box.
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Below: The cellophane-covered cardboard
box measures 6 x 3 3/4 x 1 1/4" (15.3 x 8.3 x 3.3 cm).
The box arrived part of Procter & Gamble's gift with the white label
and writing as well as the 55 and
Tamblyn label and 49. Tamblyn's probably a Canadian store.
The woman looks depressed or embarrassed or shy
or all three maybe
because she wound up on a box of tampons. Some
real women (and here)
have not been
so affected although the first one in an American
ad was.
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Below: The other side of the box is in
French.
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Below: The long sides are identical except
the English wording is reversed: Kotex tampons,
the English word order.
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Below: The English end is on top. It's
hard to believe the company created such a "seal"
reminiscent of Wix and some other brands.
Shame on them.
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Below: Slice open the cellophane, open
one end and you see the French instructions
wrapped around the ends of the tampons. The English version is on the other
side of the piece of paper.
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NEXT | instructions: French,
English - tampons
- Kotex second stick
tampons (U.S.A.) & their ads (also July 1972), 1960s to 1970s -
"Remember how simple life used to be?"
ads for the stick tampon - Kotams mesh-string tampon
with 2-tube insertion device (1944?) - also called Kotams:
first Kotex stick tampon, 1960-65 -
Comfortube tampons (1967), box, tampons - the
very early Moderne Woman, fax, Nunap, &
Fibs, all 1930s. See also Fems
from Australian Kimberly-Clark, 1967.
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