happiesxxl said:
As you can see the Darlings are much larger in size:
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Grumble, grumble, grumble.
Happiesxxl, this image offers a great opportunity to point out the reason why one must always stretch these diapers out and measure them before discussing size. If you wouldn't mind doing that, that would be great. These kinds of images are just terribly misleading. Usually they contain some P&G diaper all shriveled up under its own elastic tension, and another diaper that's plainly rather non-stretchy and so appears to be larger. Now, I'm not saying that the Darlings 7 diaper isn't larger than the Luvs 6, rather simply that this images makes the difference appear dramatic when, in actuality, it may be rather minimal--almost insignificant.
To illustrate this point, I grabbed a fresh Luvs 6 diaper out of my stash and measured it's length when folded as you have it above. It was 9.5 inches. The length of the same diaper, unfolded and stretched out, is 22 inches. Working backwards from there, if the diaper wasn't all shriveled up like it obviously is, but was still folded in half, the length of the folded diaper would be about 11 inches, roughly 15% longer than pictured. I've tweaked your image to include the stretch-adjusted length of the Luvs 6 diaper:
Assuming that your at-rest, folded Luvs 6 diaper is about 9.5 inches long, then the red line I've added is 11 inches--the actual half-length of the diaper. Assuming that the Darlings 7 diaper doesn't stretch lengthwise by very much--it doesn't appear that it would--then my adjusted image offers a much more realistic comparison of the two diapers. I.e., they're extremely similar in size. Keep in mind, too, that the Luvs diaper, when stretched flat, is rectangular like the Darlings diaper appears to be. The reason it's narrower at the bottom is, again, all of the elastic. So what appears to be a narrower crotch may in fact be similar or identical. It would need to be measured. I can tell you that the crotch width of Luvs 6, when stretched flat, is 9 inches from material edge to material edge.
In short: Please always measure these things, ideally with the diapers stretched out flat so that elastics don't confuse things. These sorts of comparison images just plain don't work.