See ultimate examples of the horror of allowing men to discover a woman is having her period (shame 1 and shame 2)
See some pad dispensers and ads for pads that come with pouches: New Freedom and Confidets (and the pad, box and pouches) from the U.S.A., and Camelia, from Germany.
See also the booklets How shall I tell my daughter? (Modess, various dates), Growing up and liking it (Modess, various dates), and Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
And read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets!
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Ad for Whenever menstrual pads (September 1987, U.S.A.)

By the 1990s many companies world wide put small pouches into their packages of pads so a woman could carry a single one, concealing it, and use it to contain the used pad before throwing it away.

(Here are ads for New Freedom and Confidets [and the real pouches, pads and box] and the German pad Camelia showing pouches, and here are pouches found near toilets to contain used pads.)

Note "thoroughly discreet" ("discreet" appears three times in this ad) and "incognito" among the large text; they appeal to concerns of American women, who are more worried about being suspected of menstruating than women in many European countries; compare a Camelia ad from Germany. And see ultimate examples of the horror of allowing men to discover a woman is having her period (shame 1 and shame 2).

 

 

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See ads for New Freedom and Confidets [and the real pouches, pads and box] and the German pad Camelia showing pouches, and here are pouches found near toilets to contain used pads. See ultimate examples of the horror of allowing men to discover a woman is having her period (shame 1 and shame 2)

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