Many booklets menstrual products companies made for girls and their
parents
More guides for girls and teachers:
"A Teaching Guide for Menstrual Hygiene"
(cover, 1962, Personal Products Corp.,
U.S.A.)
"A Teacher's Guide to Feminine Hygiene"
(cover, 1973, Personal Products Corp.,
U.S.A.)
"Becoming Aware Educational Kit "(Complete kit, Kotex, 1992?) Contains booklets for
girls and their mothers & sample pads and tampons. Donation from kind
site visitor!
"Educational Material on Menstruation furnished
by the makers of Tampax" (1966) U.S.A.
Folder with huge number of information sheets, etc.
"Educational Portfolio on Menstrual Hygiene"
(1968) U.S.A. Teacher's
kit for Modess sanitary napkins, menstrual tampons
and panties (mostly complete)
"From Fiction to Fact: a teaching guide about
puberty, menstruation and the human reproductive system" (complete 1966, 1986, Tambrands, U.S.A. The 1966 version is part of the
huge "Educational Material on Menstruation furnished
by the makers of Tampax," 1966)
"Teacher's kit" (complete,
early 1950s, Personal Products Corp., U.S.A.)
See also Ads for Teens
Booklets menstrual hygiene
companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent
medicine - a list of books and articles about
menstruation
 
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Leaflet for mothers promoting Kotex's
Miss Deb menstrual pads for young girls, dated
to between 1963 and 1967
sanitary napkin, tampon,
pad, belts, menstruation,
women's health, ads for teenagers, period, panty,
menarche, puberty
I dated the leaflet like this: according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, Kotex first used "Miss Deb" in 1962. But ZIP codes didn't
appear until 1963 so the leaflet had to appear after that date. At the bottom
of page 4 (right below), "Miss Deb" is missing from the list of
its registered trademarks, which means to me that this piece of paper dates
to before 1967, when the PTO said it registered it.
Whew! Time to relax; maybe I'll see Black Swan.
Kotex had early targeted young girls with its Marjorie
May booklets, which morphed into less stilted ones
around World War II. (See many more.) Girls meant
a lot to Kotex and similar companies since women often
stuck with the brand they started with. Catch 'em early!
"Deb" undoubtedly stands for débutante,
"female beginner" (thanks, Wikipedia). Americans know the
term mostly from reading about the balls held for
girls of high social status. So the combination of menstruation,
not a highly thought-of phenomenon in most women's minds, with such a high
status event probably strived to dignify an
event most mothers in the 1960s could hardly talk about among themselves
much less with their daughters (I've heard many stories).
It's possible women found this piece of paper in a box of Kotex.
I thank the donor of many items to this museum!
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Below: Pages 4 and 1 of the 7 1/2 x 6"
(19.1 x 15.2 cm) leaflet (as shown).
See the two booklets: 1. "You're a young
lady now," 1952. The first owner
might have printed her named on the back of the booklet. And see an edition
from 1959,
apparently with the owner's name cut out.
2. "Very Personally Yours," 1961 edition.
I wasn't able to create the intensity of the pink
that
exists in the original leaflet.
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Below: Interior pages 2 & 3. "Dainty" is a word that pops up again and again
in women's "intimate" products like here
and here.
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