New
Zealand Meds, 1970 -
American Meds, 1940s-1950s? -
Meds (U.S.A. and elsewhere, box and
tampon, 1967, Personal Products Company) - pamphlet
introducing Meds to the world (U.S.A.,
1930s) - 1941
American ad - Personal
Digest leaflets (U.S.A.), which
sometimes have information about Meds
(1966-67) - 1967
ad - undated instructions here and here. - Australian ad,
1950s
"Educational Portfolio
on Menstrual Hygiene" (1968)
U.S.A. Teacher's kit for Modess sanitary napkins,
menstrual tampons and panties
(mostly complete)
"A Teaching Guide for Menstrual Hygiene" (cover, 1962,
Personal Products Corp. [Modess], U.S.A.)
"A Teacher's Guide to
Feminine Hygiene" (cover, 1973,
Personal Products Corp. [Modess], U.S.A.)
"Your Image is Your
Fortune!,"
Modess sales-hints booklet for stores
similar to the one below, 1967 (U.S.A.)
Modess (Johnson & Johnson,
U.S.A.) 1927 Gilbreth
report to Johnson & Johnson about Modess
- newspaper ads 1927-28
- "Silent Purchase"
ad, June 1928 - ad, 1928
- "Modernizing Mother" ads: #1, February
1929 ("Mother . . .
don't be quaint"); #3 April 1929 ("Don't weaken, Mother");
#5, June 1929 ("Never
mind, Mother, you'll learn") - ad about concealing
pad, 1930 - ad
compared with Kotex ad, 1931 - ad, 1931 - wrapped Modess pad
for dispenser, 1930s? - Ad, U.K., 1936 - True or False? ad
in The American Girl magazine, January 1947
- Australian ad,
1957 - ad (1956)
with "Modess . . . . because" ad
incorporated into it - ad for "Growing Up
and Liking It" booklet (1963, Modess) -
actress Carol Lynley
in "How shall I tell my daughter?" booklet
ad (1955) - Modess . .
. . because ads (many dates) - French ad, 1970s?
- ad, French,
1972, photo by David Hamilton - Personal Digest
leaflets (6), 1966-67: describe Modess
products - How Modess
Sanitary Napkins Began: excerpts
from"A Company That Cares: One Hundred Year
Illustrated History of Johnson and Johnson"
MUCH MORE MODESS INFORMATION AND PRODUCTS
The first Tampax
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Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health
Meds menstrual
tampons, super, 10 tampons
(1969, Laboratoires Péloille, France)
plastic applicator
First
page.
I thank the
former Tambrands, which made
Tampax before Procter &
Gamble bought the company, for
donating the box, part of a gift of about 1000 menstrual
products and documents!
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Below:
Paper tampon wrapper.
As I explained, this is the best I
can do to show anything of the
tampon
except for the illustration
on the box and the drawing
in the instructions (below).
The wrapper
measures 6 3/8 x 1 1/8" (16.2 x
2.9 cm) as shown and at its
widest.
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Below:
Instruction sheet
(paper), which measures 7 7/16 x
10 3/16" (18.9 x 26.3 cm).
Its color is gray greenish-blue.
Playtex
claimed in an announcement
to American retailers that
it was the first to
introduce the plastic insertion
device,
below called the applicateur
plastique, as well as
several other firsts. Tampax
of course (of course!) invented
the
cardboard
insertion device, separating
itself from other early American
tampons, one without
a string!
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Below:
Other side of the
instructions. It warms my
heart that it's a shade of red
(pink), not
avoiding the red associated with
menstruation as often happens with
American products.
(But at least one
early American tampon did
use red.)
But the contemporary New
Zealand Meds has an even
stronger red. Hurray!
Somewhere
on this site I compare the suspiciously
similar illustrations
different
companies used in their
instructions.
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New
Zealand Meds, 1970 -
American Meds, 1940s-1950s?
- Meds
(U.S.A. and elsewhere, box and
tampon, 1967, Personal Products
Company) - pamphlet
introducing Meds to the world
(U.S.A., 1930s) - American
1941 ad - Personal
Digest (U.S.A.) leaflets,
which sometimes have information
about Meds (1966-67) - American 1967
ad - undated American instructions
here
and here
- Australian
ad, 1950s
"Educational
Portfolio on Menstrual Hygiene"
(1968) U.S.A. Teacher's kit for Modess sanitary
napkins, menstrual tampons
and panties (mostly complete)
"A Teaching Guide for Menstrual
Hygiene" (cover,
1962, Personal Products Corp.,
U.S.A.)
"A Teacher's
Guide to Feminine Hygiene" (cover,
1973, Personal Products Corp.,
U.S.A.)
"Your Image is
Your Fortune!," Modess
sales-hints booklet for stores
similar to the one below, 1967
(U.S.A.)
MUCH MORE MODESS INFORMATION AND
PRODUCTS
Early commercial
tampons - Rely tampon
- Meds
tampon (Modess)
The first Tampax
- Tampon
directory.
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