See a Kotex pad from the 1960s.
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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Not a shadow of a doubt
Ad for Kotex menstrual pads (9 March 1953, U.S.A., publication unknown)
At this time Modess was showing its long-running "Modess
. . . . because" series with women in expensive-looking dresses.
Was Kotex copying this idea of beautiful clothes while menstruating? But
a problem: no way the pad would cause a shadow under the clothes in most
of these ads!
In two similar but older ads (1927
& 1932 ) Kotex
again brings clothing to the fore.
See a Kotex pad from the 1960s.
See two other Kotex ads emphasizing clothes: 1927 & 1932.
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NEXT Not a shadow of a doubt ad - See a Kotex
pad from the 1960s.
See two ther Kotex ads regarding clothes: 1927
& 1932 and another shadow
ad, 1952 -
See some Kotex first-campaign ads: general discussion
and ad prototype - January 1921 - May 1921 - November 1921
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