*(two-piece diapers consisting of a tie-on waterproof cover and a disposable insert)?
Have you worn them as a baby or wear them as an adult? Were they ever available in the US?
From what I read, these kind of diapers were mostly a European thing, mostly widespread in the Nordic countries from about the mid 70s to the mid 80s, as a cheaper alternative to all-in-one disposable diapers.
In Hungary, which was a Communist country until 1990, these were the only kind of disposable diapers available from about the mid 80s up to 1990, normal disposable diapers only introduced in that year. They were eventually phased out around 1996. I think they were also available in the late 80s in Poland and East Germany, though they were more expensive and not as widespread there.
I was born in 1990 in Hungary, my Mom tells me that when I was a newborn she used cloth diapers on me with the tie-on snibb cover. Later she switched to disposable inserts inside a tie-on cover, and around the time I was two, she started using all-in-one disposable diapers on me for nighttime or when we went away from home, and continued to use the snibbs with the disposable pads when we were at home during daytime.
I have a friend who is not an ABDL, but uses diapers because she has very heavy periods. She was born in 1986 and said that her parents also diapered her with a snibb cover and disposable pads up to 1990 when she was potty trained. She actually prefers adult-sized snibbs, and has worn them with a cloth diaper insert until last year, when she switched to disposable inserts, saying that she finds them more secure and sexier-looking than all-in-one disposables.
I've also tried out adult-sized snibbs with disposable pads, both because of curiosity and for nostalgia's sake when I was a baby. They do feel more secure, that they are tied on me, rather than only being held by tapes, and I also find them better-looking than all-in-ones, however they don't hold as much as an all-in-one diaper, and of course it has no leak guards, other than tying them on yourself very tightly.
Have you worn snibbs as a baby, or wear them now as an adult? What do you think of them?