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 pageAds for the Kotex stick tampon (U.S.A., 1970s)
- a Japanese stick tampon from the 1970s.
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Special underwear protected women from leaking
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Look how cheap postage was! Of course,
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Read the ad, above left, for indications of the ways women's dress had recently changed. |
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Even though disposable pads had already appeared in America
(Curads, by 1920; Kotex,
in 1921), many women in succeeding decades still used washable
pads, at left, (here are modern washable
pads from Canada and the U.S.A. and from India
and old Norwegian and Italian
pads) because they were cheap, among other reasons. One regular Kotex sold
at this time for about five cents (see an ad);
the washable pad above was 21 cents, but a woman wore it many times.
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See many more belts and how a woman wore (and wears!) a belt. |
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog) - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928Copyright Harry Finley 2006 |