See early tampoms Dale,
Wix and B-ettes and a bunch of other
earlier ones.
See San-Nap-Pak sanitary napkin ads
from 1932 and 1945 and Ads for teenagers.
See the roughly contemporary Cashay tampon, box,
instructions. (Procter & Gamble
donation, 2001), and
Dale (U.S.A.,
1930s?-1940s?) Tampons, box, instructions.
(Procter & Gamble donation, 2001)
And, of course, the first Tampax AND -
special for you! - the American fax
tampon, from the early 1930s, which also
came in bags.
See a Modess True
or False? ad in The American Girl
magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley in
"How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad
(1955) - Modess . . .
. because ads (many dates).
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Cashay tampons (1930s-1940s?, U.S.A.)
Tampons
Procter & Gamble kindly
donated the box and contents as
part of a gift of scores of
menstrual products.
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Each of the
three tampons comes
wrapped in cellophane,
above. The wrapped tampon
measures about 1.5" x
1.25" x 0.875" (thick).
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Detail from
tampon, below, showing the
loose cotton easily pulled
from the tampon.
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The unwrapped
tampon is slightly larger than
when in the wrapped, compressed
state. The free string
measures 5.5" long.
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After noticing that
the tampon was two squares of
cotton, one on top of the other, I
tried to pull them apart, but look
what's holding them together!
Several pieces of gauze between
them anchor the string and form
part of the boundary between the
squares. Read the company's
explanation for this (in the instructions).
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See the
Cashay instructions
and box.
See early tampoms Dale,
Wix and B-ettes
and a bunch of
other earlier ones.
See San-Nap-Pak sanitary
napkin ads from 1932
and 1945
and Ads
for teenagers. See the
roughly contemporary Dale
tampon, and very early Tampax
and fax.
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