Who remembers PLASTIC pants being called RUBBER pants?

Born in the late 50 s and I only remember them as plastic pants and I used them well into my teens.

Born in the mid-sixties and can only ever remember them being called plastic pants

To be honest I don't remember any of that. I've been in terry nappies and plastic pants (well it was before Pampers came to my country) but don't have any memory whatsoever of it. Embarrassing? I suppose so.

Being born in 1948, I vividly remember the old plastic pants being called "rubber pants" I wore them things for several years till I outgrew them about 1952 or so.

I was born in the 60's and wore plastic pants, always referred to as "rubber pants" by my mom.

Yep, same here. I was born in the late 50s and they were always called "rubber pants" even though they were plastic.

My Mom always called them rubber panties.

Mine were called rubber pants

My Mom and her sister's Always referred to the plastic pants that they used as "rubber pants." I was born in the mid '50s and wore double cloth diapers and rubber pants. No matter what water proof diaper covers are made of, To Me they are all "rubber pants." I have several cloth/PUL and cloth/Vinyl rubber pants that I've had custom made. The cloth covers are very babyish prints and are lined with PUL or vinyl. I never worry about leaking as the rubber pants are totally functional. The Irony, is that the rubber pants I now wear to cover my double cloth diapers are a lot cuter than the ones I wore in the mid '50s.

I was a baby in the early fifties and there were no plastic pants in fact plastic hadn't been invented. We didn't have electricity, running water, indoor plumbing, used an outhouse and took a bath in the kitchen as I got older. I remember the first phone was a crank up and used three cell batteries. The Victrola played music at 78 rpm. Rubber pants was all you could get.

My mom always refered to them as rubber pants, even thuo i called them plastic pants or baby pants.

I remember mom making them out of the plastic bags from the vegetable isle in the supermarket.

Born 1950.

Always called plastic pants. No memory of them being called rubber.

There was a crib sheet that was made of rubber that was put to use for many years.

Mine were always called rubber pants

One day whilst watching my mother changing my sisters nappy (I was around perhaps 5/6?) I remember my mother pointing and saying "can you get those 'rubbers' for me?" I remember it as if it was yesterday, the pants were yellow plastic or vinyl and I clearly remember picking them up and holding onto them as my mother tried to take them off me, she held onto them as did I for a few seconds and then I let them go, she proceeded to fit them on my sister. I never thought any more about nappies/pants until I was around 13, but in those few seconds a diaper lover was born.

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I'm 71years old. I was a bed wetter until I was about 10 and then became incontinent as the result of a medical mishap when I was 14. During my days as a young kid wetting the bed, I had real rubber pants. I remember that they came in a tube and had an odour resembling baby powder when they were new. They were rather fragile and had to be handled carefully. A diaper pin could skip and ruin a pair. I was probably anout 8 or so when I got my first plastic pants, which we continued to call rubber pants even though that's not what they were. The plastic pants were better than the rubber pants because they required less care, we're much less fragile and cost less.

Rubber pants and rubbers mattress cover on my bed

I think that the reason that plastic pants were called rubber pants was that as WW2 was getting longer that there was a rubber drive for tires for the army trucks and jeeps that included rubber pants and to fill the void Vinyl plastic was used. The term rubber pants has since been used because parents,especially mothers were still getting used to the new vinyl plastic pants and they kept getting called "rubber pants". that's just my take on it

My mother also called them rubber pants, even thou they were plastic. I call the plastic pants or baby pants. I wear them always with my disposable and cloth diapers for some 40+ years.

Ah, the wringer washer. Guess that makes me an "Old Fart". I was raised up in a large family and a wringer washer was used for the diapers and other rough laundry that mom didn't want to put in her spiffy new fangled auto matical washer. Well, dad was doing mom a favor by washing the diapers and rubber pants (yes, they were called rubber pants. the word sent chills down my childhood spine. both excitement and dread) and he began running the diapers through the wringer rolls. He picked up a pair of my sisters rubber pants and ran them through. I found this odd as I could see a disaster in the making. I did he proper thing and said "mommy doesn't do rubber pants like that dad". (she just hung them on the line to dry) He gave me this "LOOK" that said bug off and shut up, I know what I'm doing. So I stood there watching quietly. Wouldn't you know the next pair he ran through was positioned just right. The trapped air ballooned the panties just right and exploded with an ear splitting boom. I remember breaking down into uncontrollable laughter at my dad. he gave me that LOOK again but it didn't matter. I got him and he knew it. Mommy doesn't do that! Ah hahahahaha.....

p.s. for you wipper snappers that don't know what a wringer washer is, go to lehmans.com to see what they're all about. The Amish still use them.

I was in diapers and plastic pants until I was twelve. Mom always called them plastic pants.

Yes Metoo I remember moms ringer washer. You had to be careful or that thing would eat your fingers. I was over to Lehman's store yesterday to get coal.

I renember as a child them being calked rubber pants

OK, It was rubber pants and wringer washer in my day, but also a washboard in the basement concrete sinks. Let me see, something like in the 1930's! O.F. for sure. No such thing as a dryer, just a clothesline for all the neighbours to inspect. No secrets then.

Can't remember what they were called but I certainly remember a pair - mine were clear plastic with red elastic and I remember them in the draw in my bedroom long after I had finished wearing them

Yes I grew up born in 1954.we always had a wringer washer.i am sure there were rubber pants to,i was to young to remember.but remember that washer well into my teen yrs.as well as cloth diapers.i always loved my cloth diapers since age of 8 yrs.i loved see them blow in the breeze on clotheslines.when I was a teen those diapers I knew were my fetish,and used to manage to steal off clothe lines as a way to get my diapers.always looked for the old curity flat diapers 21x40.i still have lots of these in my stash.

They were always called plastic pants in our house. I remember bedtime always involved putting my terry nappy and plastic pants on until I was 8 or 9 because of my constant bed wetting. Curiously my wife calls them rubber pants

Being born in the Sixties meant cloth diapers and plastic pants. I still prefer this combo to disposable, (though sometimes it's fun to tape on a diaper and go with it... but I digress). We always referred to the plastic pants as "diaper pants", a term I have never seen on this site, unless people are sealing of those awful adult pull-ups (not diapers in my mind). Has anyone else used the term to refer to palstic pants?

They were refered to as rubber pants in my family! Thats the two words that make me perk up! I was diapered before bed until i was about 5 yrs old. I remember being diapered before bed every night no matter where we were! Cloth diapers pinned on and rubber pants pulled up over them!

I guess that I predate this subject. I'm sure that I had cloth diapers and some sort of impermeable pants but don't have any memory of it.

I grew up in the 60s. My mom always refered to them as diapers and plastic pants. They were Gerber vinyl plastic parts