Many menstrual pad belts from different companies.
Box and pads, 1930s? - wrapped Kotex pad for West Disinfecting Company dispenser (mid 1930s)
See also the Kotex "featherweight" menstrual pad belt in a tube.
Many belts, sanitary aprons & underpants from the Butler, Smyth and Savage catalogs, early 20th century.
See 3 ads for American belts, 1949 and 1955, and a booklet for girls by Beltx.
Italian washable pad, about 1900.
See how a woman wore a belt in a Dutch ad. See how women wore a belt (and in a Swedish ad). See Australian belts and pads, about 1900, and Chinese belts and pad holders. Chinese pad and panty pad, Japanese pad, older. American, Sears, 1902 & 1908. German washable pads and belt, with case (about 1935-40). Hickory ads for belts, U.S.A.: 1925, 1920s.
Phantom Kotex ad, with ad for Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, a menarche booklet, 1932 - Kotex doesn't show! 3 ads for Kotex menstrual pads, 1927, 1932, 1955 (U.S.A.)
Booklets menstrual hygiene companies made for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine - a list of books and articles about menstruation - videos
Ads for teenagers
Many more PADS, BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS
HOMEPAGE
CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Some MUM site links:
HOMEPAGE |
LIST OF ALL TOPICS |
MUM address & What does MUM mean? |
Email the museum |
Privacy on this site |
Who runs this museum?? |
Amazing women! |
Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) |
Artists (non-menstrual) |
Asbestos |
Belts |
Bidets |
Birth control and religion |
Birth control drugs, old |
Birth control douche & sponges |
Founder bio |
Bly, Nellie |
MUM board |
Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) |
Cats |
Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory |
Contraception and religion |
Contraceptive drugs, old |
Contraceptive douche & sponges |
Costumes |
Menstrual cups |
Cup usage |
Dispensers |
Douches, pain, sprays |
Essay directory |
Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) |
Extraction |
Facts-of-life booklets for girls |
Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads |
FAQ |
Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory |
Founder/director biography |
Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux |
Humor |
Huts |
Links |
Masturbation |
Media coverage of MUM |
Menarche booklets for girls and parents |
Miscellaneous |
Museum future |
Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
Odor |
Olor |
Pad, towel, napkin directory |
Patent medicine |
Poetry directory |
Products, some current |
Puberty booklets for girls and parents|
Religion |
Religión y menstruación |
Your remedies for menstrual discomfort |
Menstrual products safety |
Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory |
Seguridad de productos para la menstruación |
Science |
Shame |
Slapping, menstrual |
Sponges |
Synchrony |
Tampon directory |
Early tampons |
Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
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.

Ad for Kotex menstrual pad belt and apron (1930s?, U.S.A.)
(Kotex, sanitary napkin, pad, menstruation, belt, apron, menstrual, period, cycle)

Introduction

See how a woman wore a belt in a Dutch ad.
See a menstrual apron on a mannequin in the former museum in my house.

I thank the donor for this and many other items donated to this museum!

Below: The other side of the paper strip; it's enlarged in sections below.
Below: Two years' research? Wow.
Below: The very embodiment of the art deco woman.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Left, bottom: See the belts ENLARGED two pictures down.
Below: Kotex writes seductive ad text!
Below: I assume the K means Kotex and maybe the OOO is decoration.
But the white arrow at right points to what looks like a G: Go[o] Kotex?
The BLACK arrow at bottom points to one of the four safety pins
that women used to attach their menstrual pads to the belt, part
of the "No belts, no pins, no pads" formula.
Below: See a roughly contemporary "sanitary bloomer," designed with rubber to guard against leakage, and one from 1922.
A mannequin wears a more elaborate menstrual apron created from an ad in the Sears, Roebuck catalog.
Below: The apron ties around the waist and has
what looks like ties for attachment to the woman's garters.
 

End | other side & introduction
See also the Kotex "featherweight" menstrual pad belt in a tube.
Many belts, sanitary aprons & underpants from the Butler, Smyth and Savage catalogs, early 20th century.
See 3 ads for American belts, 1949 and 1955, and a booklet for girls by Beltx.
Italian washable pad, about 1900.
Many more
BOOKLETS - See TAMPONS, MENSTRUAL BELTS, PADS, CUPS, SPONGES, UNDERPANTS
 

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