enoway

Thanks for the info. I have spent some time looking for a picture of these pants, and haven't had any success. So, do you think they were a marketing gimmick, or something that actually worked. I wonder how often they leaked from the vents, did the flap actually prevent leaks? Ed

I remember a boy who was a bedwetter and his mom used cloth diapers and plastic pants on him. The plastic pants were something I hadn't seen before, they had some vents, nothing more than some holes in the plastic pants, covered by a flap of the same material as the plastic pants. I think the vents and flap were towards the waistband, on the rear of the pant. The top of the flap was probably attached to the waist band, the sides probably ended at the side of the pant. I think the year I saw these plastic pants was somewhere between 1962 and 1967, but that's just a guess. Has anybody ever seen plastic pants with vents similar to what I described? I wonder if they were more of a marketing gimmick or something that actually benefited the wearer? Thanks for any information! Ed