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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Kotex sanitary napkin ad, U.S.A., 1940s
I'm guessing that this ad comes from the 1940s because of the hairdo
of the girl singing. This illustration style - maybe it was the same artist
- characterized many Kotex ads from the 1940s through the 1960s.
Kotex changed its "hospital" size pad to "super"
for some reason, although Modess retained that word for years. Hospital
referred to the large pad women used after having a baby.
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