Marjorie May
booklets for girls:
Complete booklet,
1935, Canada
Cover, mid-1930s,
U.S.A.
Complete booklet,
1938, U.S.A.
Health Facts on
Menstruation, by Lloyd Arnold, M.D.
(here, 1933, Kotex,
U.S.A.)
Later Kotex Wonderform
belts here
A slightly late
Kotex booklet for girls:
As One Girl to Another
(complete booklet,
1940, Kotex, U.S.A.)
More 1930s Kotex
stuff:
1932, Phantom Kotex -
leaflet ad for
Wondersoft pads, belt, Marjorie May's
Twelfth Birthday, 1933 - 1933, Phantom Kotex - box and pads, 1930s?
- wrapped Kotex pad
for West Disinfecting Company dispenser (mid
1930s) - Two ads on a sewing pattern for women's sports trousers,
1930s - "Cooperation,"
publication for Kimberly-Clark employees,
1931-34, jokes, sports, gossip, etc.
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S
HEALTH
Cartoon ad
Kotex, 1935, (U.S.A.)
Looking at American women's faces
from 1920s-1930s illustrations
I've noticed that many have a prominent chin
and receding lower teeth but
with a prominent jaw,
which might be a stylized WASP
profile: white Anglo Saxon
Protestant, the traditional
ruling class in America. The look
is striking. (I like to look
at
faces. So who doesn't?)
A proponent of the look was John Held, Jr.,
the great jazz age illustrator,
some of whose faces you see below.
Compare his women with one of
his typical men,
at bottom. They're a different
species. They often show
a hapless
male in the presence of an
American female, a
continuing trait in comedy.
This has basis in reality. "But
[Cleopatra's] avatar lives on, an
inexhaustible source of
fascination about the first and
greatest mystery to man:
the sexual
power of women." Judith
Thurman wrote that reviewing Stacy
Schiff's biography of Cleopatra in
the New York Times (Nov 15, 2010).
Ah, yes.
I thank the contributor of
this and many other items!
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Below:
One of the women from our ad,
1935.
The red
OVAL touches the nose,
lips and chin.
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Below:
From a 1927 ad called "A Frock for
Campus Days."
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Below:
"Misty Summer Things," a full-page
Kotex ad from 1927.
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Below:
John Held, Jr.: from "It's all
right Santa--you can come in. My
parents still believe in you." The
artist drew the essence.
See another Christmas theme at the
bottom of this page.
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Right:
Part of Held's cover of "Life"
magazine, 1926 (not today's Life;
this was a humor magazine)
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Below:
From Held's 1929 "They want to fix
your tie."
The guy's face is more cartoonish
than the woman's.
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Below:
Finally, Can you resist
absorbing this cover? Look at
the title right above the
words THE HURRICANE at the bottom.
Oh, and look at the woman's
face, a late (1935) example
of the WASP profile. And her
shoulder, locking
the male gaze.
I swiped this jpg from
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/magazin-cover-zeitschriften-titelblaetter-zu-weihnachten-fotostrecke-121722-8.htm
the site that once swiped
a jpg from me.
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End | First page
Marjorie May booklets
for girls: Complete
booklet, 1935, Canada - Health Facts on
Menstruation, 1933
Wrapped Kotex pad
for West Disinfecting Company dispenser (mid
1930s)
"Cooperation,"
publication for Kimberly-Clark employees,
1931-34, jokes, sports, gossip, etc.
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