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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Interlabial
Padette menstrual pad (obsolete)
Recently a graduate student called
me and told me about the Padette
(below) - now (November 1997) called
the Miniform (obsolete in 2006; see
its page)- a
wedge of rayon with polypropylene
covering that the user places between
the labia (lips) of her vulva,
not into the vagina (picture below).
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Women use them on light menstrual
days, for light urinary leakage or
for other light secretions,
and the company - A-Fem Medical
Corporation - says it has the
absorption capacity of a
junior/regular tampon. The
manufacturer states that the pads stay
put, without
adhesives, unlike the
shifting usual pads, and they don't bunch up.
Padettes are made from the "same
materials commonly used in leading
tampon products, external pads and
panty pads," without being highly or
super absorbent. They are expelled with each
urination, and either flushed
down the toilet or wrapped and thrown
into the trash.
If you live in Florida, find them in
Walgreens drug stores. Otherwise,
order them by phone at 1-800-700-8716
(Pacific Standard Time 9-5). Ask
questions at 1-800-764-6864 (EASTERN
Standard Time 9-5). They used to cost
$7.05 for 48 (the minimum sold, in two
boxes), which included shipping and
handling; this is probably not the
current (November 1997) price.
Copyright Harry Finley 2006
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