See a Pursettes booket for teenagers (late
1950s?).
The Pursettes black
plastic tote
(carrier) with tampons. (An ad sold the tote,
and an enthusiastic customer mentions the
tote in her testimonial.)
Tampax keeps an eye
on its competitor Pursettes:
Tampax tampon inter-office
memo with attached ads, U.S.A., 1964
Want to be a SCHOOLEBRITY
in the know? (Huh, you say?) Read
Are you in the know? BOOKLET collection
of the great
pad & etiquette tips for teens Kotex ran
for decades (but without the ads) (1956)
Booklets
menstrual hygiene companies made for girls,
women and teachers - patent
medicine - a list
of books and articles about menstruation
See early tampons
and a list of tampons
on this site - at least the ones I've
cataloged.
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The Museum of Menstruation and
Women's Health
Pursettes
lubricated applicator menstrual
tampons, box of 16, 1960-70s?
Campana Corp., Batavia,
Illinois, U.S.A.
The early (1930s?-40s)
no-applicator Dale
tampon (with an ad) also had a
lubricated tip, rare
among menstrual tampons.
I thank
the contributor!
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Below:
The blue cellophane-like covering
distantly resembles the weak blue
of the cardboard
tubes in the second
picture, below.
The
Turkish Tampax knock-off called Tampex
(note the "e") had
a similar
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Below:
The tubes are a faint blue
- compare with the white string
- possibly the dry lubricant
although the lubricant on the tip
of the absorbing plug is yellow.
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Below:
The top,
plug-bearing tube,
measures 2 3/4 x 1/2" (about 7 x
1.4 cm);
the bottom
one - the "pusher" - 2
7/8 x 7/16" (about 7.3 x 1.2 cm).
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Below:
Compared with its own diagram (at
right), Pursettes came kinda close
to these measurements:
the plug,
the absorbing part, is 2 3/16
(instead of 2") x 1/2" (5.5 x 1.2
cm)
and the string
4 3/4" (12 cm).
The lubricated
tip (right) is yellow,
not the blue of the lubricated
tubes. The diagram
comes from the instructions.
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