Other Modess ads: another from 1928, 1931,"Modess . . . . because" ads, the French Modess, and the German "Freedom" (Kimberly-Clark) for teens.
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MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
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Essay directory |
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Extraction |
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Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
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Olor |
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Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
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Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

 
The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health

Modess pads ad, 1938, month? publication? U.S.A.
"Five whole years of your life..."

Is she depressed but unaffected by the Depression?

Money couldn't buy the comfort women have today, even with Modess.

These early Kotex and Modess ads often show well-off women, maybe to dignify an unspeakable part of their lives. The style, both of the painting and of the painted, covers up the wretchedness of their lives. Arise, proletariat!!

Um, wait a second, it's not Labor Day yet.

But the ad keeps a tradition of hiring fine artists to illustrate menstrual products, even for girls. Things changed later.

Read how Modess sanitary napkins began.

Below: The full-page ad measures 10 1/4 x 13 1/2" (26.7 x 34.3 cm).
Below: Can you read the artist's signature (lower left of the painting)? The last two marks at
far right might be N. A., "National Academician," signifying membership in
the National Academy, an organization of American artists that
elects its members, and a common appendage to signatures of the honored.


Modernizing Mother Episodes #3, #5 || Other Modess ads: another from 1928, 1931,"Modess . . . . because" ads, the French Modess, True or false? ad,
and the German "Freedom" (Kimberly-Clark) for teens.

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