Marjorie May, three booklets, 1935 main page
See a Kotex ad
advertising this booklet.
See Kotex items: First ad
(1921; scroll to bottom of page) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck
catalog) - Lee
Miller ads (first real person in a
menstrual 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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Pursettes menstrual tampon,
puberty & menarche booklet,
late 1950s?, U.S.A.
Getting
to Know Yourself
Pursettes, a tampon
with a lubricated tip, and no
longer produced, made this
booklet for teenage girls,
possibly in the late 1950s or
early 1960.
The Tambrands research
library kindly gave it to MUM.
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Below:
Inside front cover and p.1. Look
how the booklet conceals the
fact that it's about
menstruation and sanitary
protection by putting
that information on the inside
front cover (below, left), not on
the cover. "Growing" - wink, wink,
nudge, nudge - is a euphemism for
obvious sexual maturation; kids
have been growing since they were
born, even growing up.
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