More menstrual and
everyday underpants
Japanese,
early 20th century - "Sanitary
Bloomers," 1922 (ad from Sears,
Roebuck catalog, U.S.A.) - various underpants, 1928
(page from Sears, Roebuck catalog) -
step-in, Hickory,
1928 (ad from Vanity Fair magazine, U.S.A.)
- first Sears everyday
underpants (nonmenstrual), 1935 (ad from
Sears, Roebuck catalog) - various underpants (and
belts), 1946-47 (page from Sears, Roebuck
catalog) - various underpants,
1960s (part of Personal Digest, Modess,
U.S.A.) - SheShells
underpants (1970s)
See a prototype
of the first Kotex ad.
See more Kotex items: Ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck
catalog) - Marjorie
May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for
girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are
many links here to Kotex items) - 1920s
booklet in Spanish showing disposal method
- box from about
1969 - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for
girls) - "Are you in the
know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) -
See more ads on the Ads
for Teenagers main page
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"Kotex Panti" underpants to hold
menstrual pads (U.S.A., 1970s?)
Bar codes, which blossomed
during the 1970s, help date these
panties, as does the hairdo on the
woman on the box (here).
In the 1970s the sun was setting
on special underpants to hold
menstrual pads, which probably
started at least by the late 19th
century (see a German design).
Pads with their own adhesive,
common today, appeared in the
early 70s - New Freedom
and, for example, and see an ad
for Stayfree in Dutch,
which compares wearing a menstrual
belt with the new Stayfree
adhesive pad.
Tambrands, which used to make
Tampax, generously donated the
panties as part of a large gift.
Harry Finley created the
photos.
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Above:
the panty on a mannequin and
holding a Kotex Plus pad (more
about that pad here).
Below:
the inside of the crotch of the
above panties where the menstrual
pad lies, its tabs - long pieces
of material on both ends - held by
the clasp in front (bottom of
picture and in the column at
right) and the elastic band in
back (top and in the column t
right).
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Below:
the Kotex Plus pad (here)
is much wider than the
crotch of the panties
probably in order to
protect the latter from
menstrual blood spill,
much as the wings of pads
do today.
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Japanese,
early 20th century - "Sanitary
Bloomers," 1922 (ad from
Sears, Roebuck catalog, U.S.A.),
various underpants,
1960s (part of Personal Digest,
Modess, U.S.A.) - SheShells
underpants (1970s) - ALL
underpants
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