Alternative name for Plastic Pants

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I just wondered if anyone else had alternative names for plastic pants when they were younger?

I always called plastic pants “‘elastic pants’” when I was a child, and I really thought that this was what they were called.

I don’t know if this was a common name here in the UK, whether this was a term my family used, or whether I simply misheard ‘plastic’ as ‘elastic’; the both end in ‘stic’ so that’s certainly a possibility!

Was this just me, or did anyone else ever come across the term “elastic pants”?

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Hmmm…PVC pants, vinyl pants, plastic pants, PPs…

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I suspect I just misheard then! :slight_smile: Oh well…

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Seems there’s different names, all regional. Canadians love calling 'em vinyl pants or PPs, it’s all rather interesting. :cool:

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In my family they were colloquially known as “rubber knick’s” or “ninnies” (which was probably derived from my toddlerish attempt to say knick’s).

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Ninnies is cute! I really like that one!

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I dunno if I ever thought much about them when I was younger, lol I lowkey thought they looked like trash bags :stuck_out_tongue:

Booty BAGS XD okay Ima just leave XP

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Good one! :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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They were always referred to by my parents as my “plastic panties” when I was growing up, despite the fact I am a male.

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I’ve heard baby pants and baby panties.

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When I was very young, my parents called them rubber pants. At the time 1950’s and early 60’s, some of the pants were made of rubber.

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I usually hear them called plastic panties.

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I was in “rubber pants” over my cloth diapers as a child in the sixties. In all honesty, I do not remember if they were really rubber or just early plastic pants. I’m not about to go ask my mother. :slight_smile:

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Ditto that!

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My sister is a bit younger than me and I think hers were rubber too but I don’t know. This would have been about the time that the plastic pants were starting to be found. My parents could have been calling them ‘rubber’ just out of habit.

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My mother called them ‘rubbers’ short for ‘rubber pants’ although they were definitely plastic when me and my brothers and sisters wore them between 1968 and 1980.

Also I have a large collection of adverts for baby pants from old magazines including several from the mid-1950’s and they are all plastic not rubber. There’s one from 1948 which has both types. I think hardly anyone still around will have worn actual rubber pants except in Latin America where they seem to have gone on much longer.

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I too remember my mom calling them “Rubber Pants” and this was the 70s and they were a shiny white plastic material not rubber…she would always put a pair over our diapers even though they were plastic backed…Today I will still put a pair over my diapers, almost feel like somethings missing if I dont have on one over the diaper.

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“I think hardly anyone still around will have worn actual rubber pants except in Latin America where they seem to have gone on much longer”. I was born Mid 50s and wore rubber pants over terry toweling nappies right through my childhood to early 70s . I did have some plastic pants, but the rubber ones certainly lasted longer and were very comfortable. In recent years I have found a company that can supply rubber pants just like the ones I had then, and I really enjoy them with both cloth and disposable nappies.

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I can’t remember them ever being spoken of.

I only remember the product or media references (plastic/baby pants, rubbers).

My first were,

And I can’t remember for sure if I noted the name, but I must’ve, to know what to look for, mu’nt I?

‘Pilchers’ is one I’ve heard from Yanks.

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I remember “Rubber Pants” despite not one pair I or my sister (4 years younger) had was actually made out of rubber.

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