Lil-lets tampons, box and instructions, from South Africa, 1978 - ad, "How to make a packet of tampons disappear," U.K., 1988
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Lil-lets menstrual tampons, 1978-77?
She magazine, U.K.

Lil-lets, like Lotus and most early American and all European tampons, had no insertion device (the tubes with Tampax and Playtex, for example). Manufacturers, ever anxious to serve their customers, developed smaller or larger tampons as those needs arose.

But Tampax very early on in tampon history made various sizes, the smallest being "junior."

Thanks to the donor from the Uniter Kingdom for the scan!


Lil-lets tampons, box and instructions, from South Africa, 1978 -
ad, "How to make a packet of tampons disappear," U.K., 1988

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