See some Kotex first-campaign ads: general
discussion and ad prototype - January
1921 - May 1921 - November
1921
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) - ad 1928 (Sears
and Roebuck catalog) - Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many
links here to Kotex items) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing disposal
method - box from about 1969 - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls) - "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 doesn't show! Ad for Kotex menstrual
pads, 1932 (U.S.A.)
1932: tampons made this headline, below, a lie as small companies burst
forth with tiny solutions to women's menstrual concealment strategies. Wix, fax, Tampax - notice the X's? Just like Kotex! - and others
at this time started to grab women's attention.
Modess too emphasized clothing on highly stretched young women, pencil
thin in this contemporary ad.
See a roughly contemporary version of the Marjorie
May booklet advertised at the bottom of the ad (Canadian edition but
it was probably identical to the American).
See two more Kotex ads emphasizing clothing: 1927 & 1955.
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See two more Kotex ads emphasizing clothing: 1927 & 1955. See another Phantom Kotex ad -
See some Kotex first-campaign ads: general discussion
and ad prototype - January 1921 - May 1921 - November 1921
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