Who remembers PLASTIC pants being called RUBBER pants?

How many of us went through the years of plastic pants being called rubber pants? My Mom always called my and everyone elses plastic pants, rubber pants. My roommate keeps telling me how cute I look in my rubber pants, this is what got me thinking about this. Anyone else have these memories?

I still hear some women call plastic pants "rubber pants" and both terms turn me on. 😁 😁

Way back in the 60's my Mom always called them plastic pants.

When I was small, I can’t recall there being plastic, it was rubber. Rubber pants. There was no TV, only one phone in the house and it was black and had a rotary dial, a radio was pretty minimal in sound but max in size, transistor was not a word, fade-a-way fenders on a car was really cool (oops “cool”only referred to the opposite of warm), no one swore, (much), and we all rushed home to hear the latest episode of Superman on the radio. We played Monopoly and the piano with hymns to amuse ourselves. Disposable diapers? What under the sun do you mean? The cloth hung out to dry nearly every day even in the winter, there was no such thing as a “washer and drier”. It was all done with a scrubbing board in a cement sink in the basement. Finally we got a washer with a squeeze roller wringer, a device that people lost part of their arms with if they weren’t careful. But I think I was out of diapers and rubber pants then.

They were rubber pants (in name at least) as I grew up.

A whole lot of years ago back in the early 80's i was shopping for shoes at Miracle Mart and as I was walking out i overheard two women talking and one said to the other, "lets see what they have in way of rubber pants." when the only waterproof baby pants were in plastic. It gave me goosebumps and made the hair on my arms stand on end because it confirmed my beliefs that some women still thought that plastic pants were both really cute and practical. I almost said to them, "you know I'm wearing cloth diapers and rubber pants too because they help me feeling like a cute baby."but I thought the better of it and just kept going but with a bit of a smile on my face and wondering what they would be saying to the baby as they would be slipping the 'rubber pants' over the diapers.

My mother always referred to them as "rubber pants". This was in the sixties when they were most certainly vinyl. When ever we were sent to get diapers for ourselves or a sibling to be changed my mother would say" go get 2 diapers, a pair of rubber pants, and the powder can so I can change .".

My Mom always called them rubber panties.

Both types were available, rubber and plastic, but my Mom always used plastic pants. She just called them "plastics". I do remember though, that she had a rubber girdle, as I used to see it on the washline with my sister's plastic pants. It was large and didn't look quite like baby pants so I knew it wasn't for my sister.

Rubber pants wording for plastic pants still exists even after decades of the true rubber pants being extinct. I occasionally hear someone refer to diaper covers as rubber pants although they would not even recognize real rubber pants. I believe it is like Kleenex for tissues.To bad some one didn't trademark Rubber Pants.

It still gives me warm chill to hear women using the terms "rubber pants and "plastic pants" even "baby pants" as the term for plastic pants. I also find the term, panties as being both cute abd babyish.

I grew up in the sixties and usually baby pants were called rubber pants even if they were actually plastic.

I remember them being called rubber pants. When I put sub in a nappy he has on his rubber pants. Just what they are to me.

I really and truely cannot remember what mom called them when i used them long ago. I do remember how cold they would be around the leg holes when slid up the legs back into place after being changed. And as much as i like plastic/rubber pants they never get the look like i remember. Loose and very baggy on,When i see pics of me back then in just a diaper my pastic/rubber pants looked like a air bag on me lol.

My Mom called them rubber pants too. I still call them that to this day. And I wear them every day over my diapers.

Fred said: "...got a washer with a squeeze roller wringer, a device that people lost part of their arms with if they weren’t careful."

I think that may have been the source of the frighteningly descriptive phrase about getting your tit in the wringer! Owww.

Hugs,

Diane

I don't remember, i was potty trained before the age of two, but I have a photo of me at age 13 months and I am wearing a wet cloth diaper and plastic pants that are see through pulled up over my belly button. My diapers are in a bunch around my gentials and they look really soaked. I know I have my diaper fetish because my mom took my out of diapers to early.

IIRC the wringer was called a "Mangle" for the named reason. And there were some rubber/plastic panties for ladytimes too. Often used with upcycled cloth diaper padding.

Back in the early 60's I wore rubber pants, so referred to by mom. They were plastic, but she called them rubber pants. I do remember when I was older hearing her use both the term rubber pants, and plastic pants. Now I have both, real rubber pants and plastic pants too!

LOL, I'm officially designating my self "an old fart" by answering this! oh well, I'll screw my reality with perception later... They were always called plastic pants when I was growing up. I honestly never heard the term rubber pants till i was much older. My perfect vision of plastic pants were the Gerber style blue one that hung in every store, even quick stops! they were every where,and they imprinted on me. Of all the plastic pants I have ever seen or bought since I have never seen any in an adult size that quite match those old Gerber style. I have never been able to figure that out. They were so simple. Come to think about it, Gerber should at least send me a thank you letter for all the ones I bought and tore thinking "maybe I'll be able to squeeze into these ones"! surely I was good for a couple of years of increased stock value!!!!

When I was stationed in Iowa I ordered Gerber baby plastic pants straight from the company after talking to them on the phone. That was in 1981/2 and they still made them in adult sizes but they still had the Gerber baby tag at the back.

"Way back in the 60's my Mom always called them plastic pants"

In the description of my early days, I was referring to the early to mid 1930's! Honestly!

I don't want to join the old farts here, but when I was diapered in the 40s, baby pants were rubber pants. They were still available into the mid-50s, at least, when my youngest sister still wore them. They were stretchy and amber in color and came in a cylindrical tube, lightly powdered with a distinctive scent when the end cap was removed. When worn and washed, they took on a nice scent of natural rubber and darkened with use.

diaperedJoe, I also purchased plastic pants directly from Gerber in '87 and remember the tag. They surely were authentic!

When I was growing up in the 60's I also remember my aunts, and my mothers friends refer to them as rubber pants, even though they were long gone by then. I guess it's a term that was handed down for a couple of generations, much like older people referring to the refrigerator as "the ice box".

Back in the 30's - yes it was the 1930's it was rubber in those days. Disposables had yet to wait their day. That's why I prefer cloth today, just works better for me and it's more fun.

OLD FARTS!!!i resemble that remark (actually thats "smelly old fart")

In the chicago area during the 50's and thru the 60's most references i heard used (and i paid attention to those statements) referred to them as rubber pants. when i started buying my own rubber pants with my paper route money they were actually Empire super large plastic pants from Kressges 5 and dime. when i was almost 4 years old i remember being put in just in case diapers ( a couple pairs of underpants ) as my mother stood be hide me pulling up my (real) rubber pants. when my youngest brother was born my mother still used rubber pants. i was caught a few times wearing his rubber pants at nap time when they came up missing, i would have been between 7 and 8 when that last happened. but old fart or not, the desire for good ole rubber or plastic pants still burns.

Well I certainly qualify as an old fart. I'm getting so old that I am starting to fart dust. But I was born in 1955 and always wore plastic pants but my mother and most of the other moms in the neighborhood all refered to them as rubber pants. I also did have a pair of adult size Gerber plastic pants and I loved the regular Gerber tag sewn in them, that really brought me back to the days when I wore Gerbers as a child/

I was born in the late fifties before disposable nappies were invented so wore cloth nappies and plastic baby pants which had replaced rubber baby pants by then,but up until I was ten or so my mum referred to them as rubbers ie rubber pants strange as they were the plastic pants that I wear to this day and are still enjoyed.

My mom calld them plastic baby pants so I do the same lol