Compare a French Modess ad, a German ad, and another French ad featuring just a man!
And see a Modess . . . . because pad dispenser from the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C. (U.S.A.).
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
Ads for the Kotex stick tampon (U.S.A., 1970s) - a Japanese stick tampon from the 1970s.
Early commercial tampons - Rely tampon - Meds tampon (Modess)
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Modess . . . . because ads, part 7 (parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
and playing cards and pad belt)

Four store displays offering reproductions of
Modess pad fashion photograph ads, 1957, U.S.A.

More commentary here.

I thank the frequent Dutch contributor for these scans of his possessions!

Below: The scan donor gives the measurements as follows (each of the displays is the same size):
The height: 360 mm; the width at top 310 mm (14.17"), in the middle at its widest 505 mm (19.9"),
and at bottom 465 mm (18.3"). The thickness of the cardboard is 3 mm, (about 1/10").

The woman at left is probably Juba, who also appears on the first card and on Modess
playing cards and on the company's pad belt
.




End
Pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and playing cards and pad belt) of Modess . . . . because ads

Compare a French Modess ad, a German ad, and another French ad featuring just a man!
And see a Modess . . . . because pad dispenser from the Smithsonian Institution.
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