See later ads for flushable
pads and a box of Society napkins,
from the 1920s-1930s, supposedly flushable,
and a 1928 booklet (Preparing
for Womanhood) describing this
technique.
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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Instructions
for the disposal of Kotex menstrual
pads, 1920s, in Spanish
In the Wallace Meyer collection
of the State Historical Society of
Wisconsin one can see this booklet
from the 1920s in Spanish
describing Kotex. Women disposed
of Kotex by taking it apart and
flushing the parts down the
toilet. The company changed its
directions later because of the
problems with stopped-up toilets
(see the report
from Dr. Lillian Gilbreth in
1927). Other companies have
introduced pads supposedly capable
of being flushed - links below and
at left - but many don't
seem to survive the test of
plumbing.
See later ads for flushable
pads and a box of Society
napkins, from the
1920s-1930s, supposedly flushable,
and a 1928 booklet (Preparing
for Womanhood) describing
this technique.
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