See a roughly contemporary
pad, Society, and
a "silent purchase"
ad for Modess, 1928.
Other Modess ads:
1931,"Modess . . . . because"
ads, the French
Modess, and the German "Freedom"
(Kimberly-Clark) for teens.
See a prototype
of the first Kotex ad.
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The perfect menstrual pad 2a (1 2 2a 3 4 4a 5):
A post-report Modess
menstrual pad showing some of Dr.
Gilbreth's recommendations
"Report of Gilbreth,
Inc.," to Johnson & Johnson
Company, 1 January 1927, about how to
improve
the company's menstrual products, especially
with regard to competition with Kotex pads
I don't know when this pad
appeared - there are no dates,
copyrights or trademark dates on
the box or written contents - but
it looks like the 1930s to me and
bears some of Dr. Gilbreth's
recommendations - but not all of
them. (See some Modess ads
from 1927-28 that might
reflect Dr. Gilbreth's ideas.)
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The short (front) tab of the
pad, showing the rounded filler
(top) and the gauze tab and
covering
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The gauze covering
opens easily on the non-body side
of the pad. The pad is uniformly
thick, about 0.75" (ca. 1.9 cm).
Dr. Gilbreth in her report
to Johnson & Johnson
recommended that it be thicker in
the center.
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The copy of the report that I
read, which might be unique,
rests in the special collections
of Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A. Dr.
Gilbreth was the first woman
engineering professor at Purdue.
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