The toddler I outlined was wearing an early 2000's Huggies.
What I'm wearing is a modified BetterDry.
There's a link in my post to a thread I made where I created progressively better performing diapers by doing the opposite of what some harp an adult diaper needing like edge to edge padding and more than one tape per side. But I'll go ahead and link it again.
In the past few years there have been many discussions on this forum about the construction of adult diapers and how it should be done. I have been involved in several of them and have made some fairly controversial claims about how the current design is totally wrong. Here are a few of them...
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I'm not holdng my breath on these new Huggies but there is promise. Especially in what other manufacturers have done. Several have gone longer but not wider and they fell off the shelves. I believe this happened because there are better performing youth products out there.
Pampers only slightly adjusted the length and just used wider stretch panels. Still on shelves but not selling like it should from what I have seen. I haven't seen much though so anyone with any more/better information please chime in.
My favorite, Rascal+Friends, went proportionately wider and longer with their 7 but not by much. People are buying them though and it appears to be a lot too. They seem to be outperforming the competition by a pretty good margin as well. I'm starting to think this is because of the lack of stretchy sides. Stretchy sided diapers just don't seem to be able to keep a good fit even on babies. This could be why Pampers seems to be going to stiffer sides.
If Huggies takes all this in to account they really could turn the market on it's head and come out with a useful size 8 that actually works. But they are the ones that pioneered the current shrinkflated diapers we have on the market today so it most likely will end up being a size 6 from the early 2000's seeing as how the size 7 now is a bit smaller than that if memory serves me right.