See Lil-lets menstrual tampons (South Africa,
1978) - tampon directory
See Japanese instructions for making menstrual
belts and pads at home in the early 20th century.
Suspenders to hold pads (U.S.A.,
19th century)
More belt topics
Actual belts in the museum
See how women wore a belt (and in a Swedish
ad) - many actual 20th-century
belts - a modern belt for a washable pad and
a page from the 1946-47 Sears catalog showing
a great variety - ad for Hickory belts, 1920s?
- Modess belts in Personal Digest (1966) - drawing
for a proposed German belt and pad, 1894
See Japanese instructions for making menstrual
belts and pads at home in the early 20th century.
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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Menstrual tampon, Russia, 1994
The Russian tampon below, from 1994, came wrapped in a thin, brown paper,
most of which has disintegrated. The string is black.
Susie Hewson, president of Natracare
all-cotton tampons and pads, kindly donated this specimen to your MUM, saying
women could only buy it in Moscow. She does not hold it in high regard.
See some early tampons from the United
States, and a recent one from Japan. And, of
course, (un)Rely(able).
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See Japanese tampon with finger cots (1990s)
- Lil-lets menstrual tampons (South Africa,
1978) - tampon directory
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