Compare the American "Modess
. . . . because" ads, a Modess ad from 1928, the French Modess, and
the German "Freedom"
(Kimberly-Clark) for teens.
See a prototype of
the first Kotex ad.
See more Kotex items: 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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Modess sanitary napkin ad from Pictorial
Review,
U.S.A., May 1931
This advertisement represents the
interesting Art Deco style of the 30s,
in contrast to the great, but even
more typical for the time, ads by Christy and
others from the age of illustration in
American advertising and publications.
If you thought our era invented
anorexia - this "smartest young thing"
(see the ad copy below, right) looks
awfully thin - read Fasting Girls: The
History of Anorexia Nervosa,
Joan Jacobs Brumberg's 1988 book.
Professor Brumberg, of Cornell
University, also wrote the fascinating
The Body
Project.
Large
files, long download!
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Compare the American "Modess
. . . . because" ads, a Modess ad from 1928, the French Modess,
and the German "Freedom"
(Kimberly-Clark) for teens.
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