The Kotex vending
machine (and the pad
within from the 1930s), the Kotex pad and
box of the 1930s
See also Australian douche ad
(ca. 1900) - Fresca
douche powder (U.S.A.) (date ?) - Kotique douche liquid
ad, 1974 (U.S.A.) - Liasan
(1) genital wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Liasan (2) genital wash
ad, 1980s (Germany) - Lysol
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Lysol douche liquid ad,
1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Midol menstrual pain
pill ad, 1938 (U.S.A.) - Midol
booklet (selections), 1959 (U.S.A.) - Mum deodorant cream ad,
1926 (U.S.A.) - Myzone
menstrual pain pills ad, 1952 (Australia) - Pristeen genital spray
ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) - Spalt
pain tablets, 1936 (Germany) - Vionell genital spray ad,
1970, with Cheryl Tiegs (Germany) - Zonite douche liquid ad,
1928 (U.S.A.)
The Perils of Vaginal
Douching (essay by Luci Capo Rome) - the odor page
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Ad for Mene
pads in Peg's
Paper (United Kingdom, 1931)
This ad appeared in a publication of
stories for "working-class" women,
Peg's Paper, a predecessor perhaps of
"romance novels" today, but maybe
"scrappier" in tone, a word used by
the Australian woman who kindly
donated it to the museum. (See the
cover, below, and an illustration
from the magazine.)
Instead of speaking to the "smart,
young set" of a 1931 Modess ad,
who look like customers in the tearoom
below, the ad addresses a poorer group
of women, that of the waitress.
Mene pads are sold today in the U.K.
Compare what the pad offers below to
an analysis of what American women
wanted in pads in the 1920s, in the Gilbreth Report
(1927).
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The publication is
9.25" x 6.625" (23.5 cm x 17 cm) and
made of something like newsprint, a
paper that deteriorates easily. See an
enlargement of the faces and a comparison
of some faces from this Peg's
Paper with other 1930s faces.
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