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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Old Dutch Cleanser ad from the 1920s
Recently (1999) someone from Time Warner Inc. researching a 1930s radio
show e-mailed to ask what Old Dutch Cleanser was, a household cleaner I
remember from the 1950s.
As it happened, I found the ad below on the flip side of this Kotex ad from the 1920s (exact date unknown, from an
unknown magazine; I roughly dated it by the Kotex ad on the reverse), creating
an opportunity to mention America's preoccupation
with cleanliness and odor
- personal, that is, not in houses, where most northern European
countries outshine the U.S.A. by many lumens.
America doesn't beat Japan, however, in
its preoccupation with bodily cleanliness, as I have noted in past News
pages. And see Japan's tampon with finger cots.
The "Dutch" woman never showed her face in these ads - below
is one from the 1920s - and she carried a mean-looking stick in her pursuit
of dirt - house dirt, not body.
The Dutch had a reputation for being extraordinary housekeepers. Do
they now?
Imagine looking out your window at Christmas and
seeing a bent-over woman approaching your house with a stick in attack position?
She's not even wearing a coat! Call 911!
But it's a nice ad.
Long download, large file!
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See Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and
German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1981) See a Lucky Strike cigarettes ad from 1933.
See ads for menarche-education booklets:
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday
(Kotex, 1933),
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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