I am the mother of 5 and used cloth diapers and rubber pants religiously right from start to finish. Night-time diapers were indeed "standard" attire in our home for many years after daytime diapers were shed, and sticking to tradition, I double diapered the kids a half hour to an hour before their bedtime each and every night, complete with rubber pants and diaper pins.
In our house it was always just plain old, traditional white, elasticized rubber pants, which I thought always looked cleaner, and sanitary compared to the pastel, or baby nursery print variety some mothers were using on their children at the time.
Having done a whole lot of babysitting throughout my earlier teen years and well into my twenties, helped expose me to how other mothers diapered their children in their households. All but a couple of the mothers I babysat for over the years used cloth diapers and rubber pants on their children, lending me all the hands on experience I needed for when I became a mother to my own children.
There's no doubt that changing all those babies wearing cloth diapers with diaper pins and rubber pants throughout all those years, definitely played an important role in my own decision to use cloth diapers on my own children.
When it comes to fit, versatility, and reliability, cloth diapers and rubber pants simply cannot be beat! They’re traditional, economical, tried and true, and convenient, and nothing looks more babyish than a baggy pair of rubber pants over a thickly padded, bulky cloth diaper fastened with diaper pins!
As well, I absolutely loved diaper wash day in our house, for I always proudly exited the back door of our tiny little home with my little round laundry basket in hand, full to the brim with freshly laundered flannelette diapers and pull-on rubber pants, and boldly pinned everything up on the outdoor clothesline for all the neighbors and passer-bys to see!
Summing up: Your so right about the ability to un-fasten, and re-fasten cloth diapers over and over again, time after time, without so much as a concern. I recall how I would lay my kids down in their baby cribs and pull down their rubber pants to their ankles, unlatch a diaper pin on one side of their cloth diapers, and do a diaper check. If their diapers were dry and clean, I refastened the diaper, rustled the rubber pants back up over top of their diapers again, and we were back in business.
If diapers were wet or poopy, diapers were promptly and swiftly unpinned, removed, and tossed into the plastic diaper pail, all while baby lay there with his or her rubber pants yarded down around their ankles. A fresh diaper was plucked from the neatly folded stack sitting on top of the dresser, tucked under baby's bottom, brought up between their legs, snugly pinned, and rubber pants pulled back up again.
Ah yes, motherhood just wouldn't be the same without cloth diapers, diaper pins, and rubber pants!