More ads for teens (see also introductory page for teenage advertising): Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and Quest napkin powder, 1948, U.S.A.), Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and belts, 1949, U.S.A.) Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.), Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and belts, 1964, U.S.A.), Freedom (1990, Germany), Kotex (1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
See more German Carefree ads.
Compare some other colorful pads and tampons for teens, funny British Carefree panty liner ads, a box of German tampons similar to the pads below, and see advertising directed at teenagers.
More ads for teens (see also introductory page for teenage advertising): Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and Quest napkin powder, 1948, U.S.A.), Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and belts, 1949, U.S.A.) Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.), Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and belts, 1964, U.S.A.), Freedom (1990, Germany), Kotex (1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
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)
See also the booklets How shall I tell my daughter? (Modess, various dates), Growing up and liking it (Modess, various dates), and Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
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
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
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Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.

 
The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health

Kotex Ultrathin ad for girls, probably c. 2000
The Netherlands, publication unknown

Have you ever lived with a cat? Two cats? Um, three cats?

So have I.

Like, you know how naughty they can be, even philosophe Ennui, le Chat Noir - oops! I mean Henri, le Chat Noir - Henry, the black cat, a Web purrsonality. Then you'll totally understand the damage to the ad below.

(BTW, shouldn't he be Henri, le Chat Noir et Blanc? He's black and white.)

Point is, Margot van Mulken, the donor, sent me the ad in perfect condition and I want to apologize to her and you on behalf of the cats and me. Well, at least me. My clowder of cats is sleeping throughout the house and cares less than least - if I may meo-, er, speak for them.

Anyway, the ad resembles many other ads for this age group such as this one for a tampon and another pad. Many more here.

And see two German Carefree ads for girls around menarche.

See more German Carefree ads.
Compare some other colorful pads and tampons for teens, funny British Carefree panty liner ads, a box of German tampons, and see advertising directed at teenagers.
Margot van Mulken kindly sent me this ad, one of scores, along with
many photocopies, as part of her research for her article "De verpakking
van maandverband: De ontwikkeling van retoriek in tijdschriftadvertenties"
(The Packaging of of Menstrual Pads: The Development of the Rhetoric in
Magazine Advertising) in Tidschift voor Genderstudies (Journal of Gender Studies),
2005-1.

Below The page measures 8 1/4 x 10 3/16" (about 21 x 26.3 cm).
Cats damaged the ad, I didn't! Darn cats.
See above.
My translation below:


(advertisement)


Kotex belongs to me


















Name: Genêve
Age: 12

Crazy about: Street dancing
Favorite color: Light blue
Always in my sports bag: Diary, cell phone, makeup, rubber bands, towel, keys and ... Kotex Ultrathin.



















You only want things that suit you, no matter where you are. Therefore Kotex has an ultrathin sanitary napkin for you. You don't feel it, see it, and it protects great. Try it. You certainly won't want anything else.

Kotex Ultrathin: Much more than just protection.

See more German Carefree ads. Compare some other colorful pads and tampons for teens, funny British Carefree panty liner ads, a box of German tampons, and see advertising directed at teenagers.

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