Kotex belted pad from right before this, um, period (1969) - Kotex box and pad, 1930s -
Dutch ads showing women wearing pad & belt: 1972 (photo), 1973 (drawing) -
Ads, U.S.A., 1973, 1974, showing new beltless pad -
New Freedom (U.S.A.), an early beltless pad (by Kotex); box bears a copyright of 1970
New Freedom (U.S.A.), an early beltless pad (by Kotex); box bears a copyright of 1970.
Kotex box and pad, 1930s.
More belts to hold menstrual pads.
Menstrual pad suspenders!
See how a woman wore a belt in a Dutch ad. See a classy 1920s ad for a belt and the first ad (1891) MUM has for a belt.
Pads for the belt. Tampon directory.
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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.

MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH

Beltless adhesive sanitary maxi menstrual pad, Kotex, U.S.A., 1974
Kimberly-Clark Corporation


This pad appeared a little after the great revolution in menstrual pad design that eliminated the hated belt, hated by most women anyway. Belts, by the way, are still offered on the Web.

Kotex's chest must have swelled with pride to have been able to say No belts, No pins (on box below) as the tampon companies had been saying for decades.

New Freedom (U.S.A.), an early beltless pad (by Kotex); box bears a copyright of 1970
Belts to hold tabbed menstrual napkins - women wore (and wear) them around their waist like a, um, belt - are essentially unchanged since the 19th century (here). Most women seem to have hated them and the pads they held (more here).
Tabbed pads and their belts virtually disappeared after adhesive pads appeared.
More belts to hold menstrual pads
Menstrual pad suspenders.
Thanks to Tambrands, former maker of Tampax, for this donation,
part of a large gift of products to this museum.
Below: Front (and back) of the box, which measures 7 3/8 x 8 x 2 3/4" (18.7 x 20.5 x 7 cm).
The green in reality is dark like the right side and does not vary from light to dark.
Tambrands donated it already open as shown and missing 10 pads.
Below: The sides.
The text, enlarged, with date below FOR HEAVY DAYS sits
below the left-hand box (right below).
   
   
Below: Top and bottom of box.
Three pictures down is an enlargement of 69¢ and some embossed numbers following it.

Below: 69¢, the price - I think that's what it is - and some numbers enlarged from the top.
 


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Kotex belted pad from right before this, um, period (1969) - Kotex box and pad, 1930s -
Dutch ads showing women wearing pad & belt: 1972 (photo), 1973 (drawing) -
Ads, U.S.A., 1973, 1974, showing new beltless pad -
New Freedom (U.S.A.), an early beltless pad (by Kotex); box bears a copyright of 1970
More belts to hold menstrual pads - Menstrual pad suspenders! - See how a woman wore a belt in a Dutch ad.
See a classy 1920s ad for a belt and the first ad (1891) - MUM has for a belt.
Pads for the belt. Tampon directory.

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