For more fun, see Dr
White's tampons (1987) - Simplicity
Freedom ads (British): May
1991 - October
1991 - Freedom Confetti (French): October 1990 - box of Freedom
tampons (German): 1991
See ads for
menarche-education booklets: Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with
Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and
German o.b. tampons
(lower ad, 1970s)
And read Lynn Peril's series
about these and similar booklets!
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) -
ad 1928 (Sears and
Roebuck catalog) - Lee
Miller ads (first real person in
amenstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928,
Australian edition; there are many links here to
Kotex items) - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls;
Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish
showing disposal
method - box
from about 1969 - "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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Funny Carefree panty liner ads,
U.K., 1990s
The two ads below demonstrate a
humor - or humour - many Americans are
surprised to see in menstrual-products
advertising in the United Kingdom. See
also the other ads linked above.
Large
files, long download!
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Ad, April 1994 (below, the words are
enlarged)
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Ad, November 1993 (below, the words are
enlarged)
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For more fun, see
Dr White's
tampons (1987) - Simplicity
Freedom ads (British): May 1991 -
October 1991
- Freedom Confetti (French): October 1990
- box
of Freedom tampons (German): 1991
- see
also Menstrual
Humor
© 1998 Harry Finley. It is
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of the work on this Web site in any
manner or medium without written
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