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Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

 

Kotex menstrual pad ad, October 1928

This advertisement shows the persistence of concern women have when menstruating. We read the same concerns today.
It appeared just three months after Lee Miller unwittingly made the first one for menstrual products to feature a real person, also for Kotex; it might show the second actual person to appear in a menstrual hygiene ad. The pose, in its elegance, matches Miller's, who was photographed by the great American photographer Edward Steichen. He could have also made this picture.
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 The words in the ad appear enlarged above.

NEXT famous woman
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Famous people in menstrual hygiene advertising: Susan Dey - Carol Lynley - Mary Lou Retton -
Cathy Rigby - Cheryl Tiegs - Brenda Vaccaro
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