Plastic Pants?

[ForbiddenFruit]

I keep seeing pictures and discussions on plastic pants. What I'd like to know is, do some people wear them just for the feel or are they only used for the ageplay side (because...well...plastic. Surely it cannot be comfortable)?

Are they commonly used for babies, or are they just not popular in Europe / UK? Thing is, I never heard of them before. Seriously, the ABDL community is the first I've ever heard them mentioned, ever, and ABDL porn the first I saw of them, yet I can remember being diapered for bed at 5 / 6 years of age.

[diaperpt]

They are used mostly over cloth diapers. Some use them over disposables to minimize the effects of leaks. Personally I love the feel of them. I think a majority of younger people - who didn't grow up with them - do not like them.

[beallucanb]

Plastic pants are what you would call old school, we that grew up wearing plastic and rubber pants remember them fondly.

I like the idea of an early waring system, that is what I use my plastic and rubber pants for, I know the feel of the leg band getting wet better than knowing too late the diaper leaked down the back of my pants.

Like everything else plastic pants come in cheap versions and good to great versions, and in different styles like pull on and snap front, the snap front are my favorite because I don't have to take off my shoes to make a complete change if I wish.

Sort of like pull ups and briefs, I love good nights but hate the idea of taking off my pants and shoes to change them.

[CDLover]

If I don't wear plastic pants, my bed ends up soaked!

CDL

[Bettypooh]

Being "Old School", as beallucanb so eloquently puts it plastic panties are part of the experience- and they allow me to use cheap store brand disposables For most folks, the comfort angle is a problem, but then again that's not an issue for me And since I wear cloth at night they're necessary then so I'm well used to them. Like anything else, if you're interested give them a try. Something tells me that nobody here would chide you for doing that

Betypooh

[babylin]

Plastic pants (circa 1947) were the successor to "rubber pants" (circa 1886 -- Kleinerts), and were very popular with mothers until the advent of disposables in the early 1960's.

Most mothers today (imho) have never seen plastic pants. Proctor & Gamble and Kimberly Clark have so saturated the diaper market that estimates of 18 billion baby diapers (not adult) are dumped into American landfills each year----or about 5 million tons of yucky waste, that once buried will remain unchanged for over a hundred years.

How many babies are born in Ireland each year? Multiply that by 5000 for each baby. Convenient, but not ecologically sound.

On the lighter side, get yourself a pair of plastic pants and put them on without a diaper. They will soon get slippery. Grab on and see where that gets you.

HAPPINESS IS WEARING COTTON DIAPERS

[froggy]

I am a fan of plastic pants. I was originally a cloth baby and plastic pants were a must. As an adult, I started with disposable diapers, added the plastic pants, then shifted back to cloth diapers. I wear plastic pants over disposable diapers too, just as extra leak protection. Finally, I just love the smell and feel of plastic pants, even without a diaper.

You should try them friend in Ireland.

wribbit

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

I had never heard of any diapers w/o plastic/rubber panties before the mid 1980's. They were de riguer even with pampers that I had actually seen as late as 1980

Somewhere they got the idea that these would not be needed but waterproof panties are still recommended by experts and the diaper companies and anyone who has had one diaper failure

There are two kinds based on the texture of the material. grainy, which fieels rough and sandpapery and smooth. The ones you want are the smooth kind I would imagine that someone form somewhere in the UK can point you in the right direction

what they are saying is "try it, you'll like it"

[Backindiapers]

I technically did not come from the age of plastic pants and cloth diapers but had an aunt and uncle who were old school in thinking. So I saw plastic pants all to often growing up. I'm actually one of the few, I'm sure, who don't like the idea of cloth diapers but still love the texture and feel of plastic pants. And if you walk around any normal store, you won't see any baby plastic pants. Well at least around here....I looked! So its no wonder younger folk haven't even heard of them.

[willnotwill]

A lot of it depends on when and how you were brought up. In our house it was always cloth diapers and plastic pants up until the youngest of the four of us (and he wore pampers sometimes and cloth others).

I remember (this was probably my earliest DL-ish memory) cramming myself into a pair of my younger sisters rubber pants while hiding out in the closet. I was probably four or five (it was in the house we moved out of when I was in first grade.

[ForbiddenFruit]

Hah. Certainly a generation thing then. For a moment I thought my parents didn't know how things were done!

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

They did not know how things should have been done. As I said earlier. Not only should they have known what the results of a diaper failure would be but also the "cloth-backed " disposables tend tgo "weep". However, it is possible that your other clothes had waterproof linings in some cases

Also, some of the clothes had a plastic lining. The panties that were part of the girls' outfits with those absurdly short dresses that let the matching panties show from the 1870's on were lined with thin grainy plastic and it would not suprise me if some of the boys things were so lined. Baby-care experts caution agaonst using things like rhumba or "fancy" pants saying that if the plastic rips the the whole garment is go good. They say to get separate baby panties and outer panties and when the girl grows out of diapers, she can still use the panties by themselves. I am pretty certain there is an equivalent for boys.

The advantage of separate diaper and panty is that each is held in place separately and good baby panties are long and full so that they cover the diaper with room to spare. If the diaper fails the contents are still retained and if the diaper droops a bit, the panties will stay up and be able to contain the droopy diaper

[TBlazer]

Man, I feel like being young and born into cloth diapers makes me lucky or something. Plastic pants are the mainstays of my memories from back in the 80s. I love em-buy a pair if you haven't yet.

[wetatnight]

i grew up with both plastic pants and cloth diapers and disposable diapers.

I preferd the disposables, but my parents couldn't afford to buy disposables all of the time.

plastic pants aren't that bad once you get used to them.

[rusty pins]

I was raised in cloth diapers and plastic pants but I do prefer disposables now. I often wear plastic pants over my disposables, even the plastic backed disposables. With the cloth backed ones it's almost a nesessity!

Interesting how people are into "Green" now days and bring up things like plastic grocery bags, plastic water bottles and things like that ending up in landfills. Solutions are paper bags instead of plastic ones and home water filters for your tap. Funny no one has brought up reusable plastic pants for use over disposable diapers. Sure, disposable diapers fill up the landfills but it's usually agreed that it's the plastic in the diaper that won't break up and will stay in the land fill. Even cloth backed disposable diapers have some plastic waterproofing in them. Now, why not make reusable plastic pants in all sized, then make the disposable diapers that everyone will continue to use with absolutly no plastic or waterproofing. Then the disposable diaper will break down in the land fills and with plastic pants over them that are reusable, there is less ecological damage! Seems like the right thing to do!

[tcc]

LOL Looking at the age of respondents, it's more us "old folks" that have vivid, strong, good, wonderful memories of "plastic pants", which my parents never stopped calling "rubber pants", which THEY grew up with, real latex waterproof baby pants. And, I was also brought up in cloth diapers. My vivid memories began around age 5, loving the look of "puffy" cloth diapers on infants - NO interest at all in the infant, only their "underwear" - and the noise - the "swish" vinyl made over those diapers with every movement. THAT was OUR "crinkle", the thing the younger generation remembers with Pampers. And, that's being lost with the advent of the "cloth-like" backing over all sizes of disposables.

If you get used to wearing diapers for long periods, you get used to the "hot, moist environment". And, plastic pants can be hot at times.

However, for me, it's TWO pairs of plastic pants, for my ultimate leakproofing and wetproofing. My diaper "package" would not be complete without plastic pants, and they are a must over cloth diapers. Plastic-backed disposables simply put diaper and pants together. It's not so much the texture and sound, but how blousy plastic pants LOOK covering my diapers. It's all what a person chooses. And, if there are so many manufacturers of plastic pants, as there are for adult diapers - even cloth - there is a demand out there.

I am of the opinion, humble as it might be, any dedicated DL or AB ought to TRY cloth diapers and plastic pants, wetting AND messing them, to see how it compares. To me, there is no comparison, but I DO know and agree that there is a place for disposables(but not without plastic pants) for convenience in a great many cases...

[Little BabyDoll Christine]

Most "civilians" still call them "rubber" and many call them "panties"

That full "blousey" look was part of the original "baby doll" look and the high waiste, was to give the appearance of, as said in Wikipedia , to give the look of being easily lifted for changing. However in the original baby doll the top covered the panties with very little to spare. So these panties did affect fashion

[LuvsGurl]

I've tried cloth diapers and plastic panties, even wet in them. They're just not for me. The diapers stay icky and damp and the plastic panties make me sweat so much. Plus there is all that trouble of laundering them. I respect those that use cloth diapers and even make them myself for others, but when it comes to the things I wear I will stick with disposables.

[aleyxsis]

I was also brought up in cloth diapers from what i was told. Also i remember all my younger cousins being in cloth diapers with plastic pants and being soo jealous .So even thou i wear disposibles i still need my plastc pants !

[justagirl4fun]

My mom used cloth diapers and plastic pants when I was a baby. (Born in 1980.) I was toilet trained shortly after turning two so I don't remember much from my diaper days, but I have a few very vague memories of wearing the plastic pants. I don't have the strong fond memories of them that so many folks here have, but they're not bad memories either. Just...neutral, I suppose. I do very definitely remember my younger siblings wearing disposables. I remember playing with the empty Pampers boxes. There are less than 4 years between me and my younger sister so I don't know what happened in that short period of time to make my mom change from cloth to disposables. I know money was pretty tight when I was a baby so that may have factored into the decision. I know both my parents had better-paying jobs when my sister was born. Then again maybe it was just because disposables were getting better.