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)
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
 
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Lucky Strike cigarettes ad, 1933
I found the ad below on the other side of the Phantom
Kotex ad; it's from an unknown magazine, with copyrighted ads dated
1933.
Someone explained to me that as a diversion from Americans' sorrows
from the Depression in the 1930s, Hollywood made movies featuring people
dressed as if they had all the money in the world. Here
are more Depression-era Americans living in a dream world, maybe to
escape from menstruation as well as poverty.
Readers could smile at the couple below making diamonds and gold out
of smoke (look at the enlargement at the bottom of the page); the rich could
do anything they wanted.
Howard Chandler Christy, who painted the
picture below, was one of several illustrators known to most Americans of
this era - can you name an illustrator of today? - that included James
Montgomery Flagg (of "I Want YOU For [the]
U.S. Army" poster fame) and J. C. Leyendecker,
who created the fabulous Arrow shirt illustrations.
The two people below have faces common to illustration of the time,
but note the feminine eyes and mouth of the man.
By the way, readers had to turn the magazine sideways
to read the ad, which ran sitting on the right end.
Two large files, long dowload!
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The smoke forms an engagement ring, at right, and a wedding
ring. The guy's good, especially puffing with his mouth shut!
But is he, um, just blowing smoke about marriage? "Forever
and ever . . " Yeh, right. Watch out, lady!
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See a 1920s ad for Old Dutch Cleanser,
a further funny digression from the theme of this Web site.
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, 1981)
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 another ad for As One Girl to Another (1942),
and the booklet itself.
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