See
more Tampax items: American ad from
August 1965 -
nudity in an ad: May
1992 (United Kingdom) - a sign advertising
Tampax during World War II - the original patent - an instruction sheet
from the 1930s
See a Modess True
or False? ad in The American Girl
magazine, January 1947, and actress Carol Lynley in
"How Shall I Tell My Daughter" booklet ad
(1955) - Modess . . .
. because ads (many dates).
|
"Are they
hard to put in?" (Tampax
menstrual tampon ad, U.S.A., 1989)
Just as with its "Are you sure
I'll still be a virgin?" ad (here),
part of the same series, Tampax
talks about a concern potential
consumers had right from the
beginning of the commercial
menstrual tampon, in the early
1930s (see an early Tampax
and see an early
report addressing these
concerns). menstrual pads were
easy to use once you got the hang
of attaching the belt (see some here) or
pressing the adhesive pad into the
panties or attaching it somehow (here).
But tampons - well, it was hard to
see where they went even if you
knew enough anatomy.
See more letter testimonials,
from the defunct tampon Pursettes,
from the patent medicine Cardui,
and from Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby,
for Stayfree sanitary napkins.
A visitor to the museum in my
house (take a tour)
said the closest emotionally she
ever was to her mother was when
the latter put her first tampon
into her after she saw her
daughter struggling on her bed.
|
|
Read the enlarged text, at
right.
|
 |
See more Tampax
items: American ad from August 1965 -
nudity in an ad: May
1992 (United Kingdom) - a sign advertising
Tampax during World War II - the original patent - an instruction sheet
from the 1930s
|