Wow this takes me down memory lane. Living in Canada we didn’t have the Luvs brand available when I was a teen but we saw the TV ads a lot. It was the first diaper with shape I’d ever seen. When on vacation with my parents in Florida I went to a 711 and bought a pack to try them out. I stashed them in the spare tire compartment of the rental car. How’s that for high level evasion tactics?70sPampers said:
When I saw this thread my first thought was how I liked the smell. These were the first adult diapers I used in the mid-80s. I also liked their plastic-backed belted garments for light protection in the day when that was still enough for me.BobbiSueEllen said:
Maybe we can start getting a group of interested people together to find someone to manufacture them. If they were made in the past, I'm sure they could be made again. Anyone up for working on this with me?MikeDJ said:
| Prior to Goodnites, an older bedwetting child had little choice but to wear a bulky diaper. Attends originally started manufacturing these diapers 1978 in this Size... labeled on the package as Small/Child It was a thickly padded diaper, with carefully placed leg cuffs. It used a hard thick crinkly plastic reminiscent of Pampers Diapers from the 1980's Taking Proctor & Gambles experience in the baby diaper Market (with the brand Pampers and Luvs) The diapers were carefully designed. The leg cuffs helped push the Bulk of the diaper to all the right places, creating a feeling that felt thick and bulky, but was comfortable for a child to walk or play in if they had to wear the diaper during the day. The Attends diapers Gave parents a way to keep their bedwetting child or teen in disposable diapers once they outgrew traditional baby diaper such as Pampers, Luvs or Huggies. Small Adults would also be able to fit into this size, however when the diaper first came out, this size was marketed towards bedwetters who were too old for traditional baby diapers, but too small for adult "briefs" These Diapers feature an inside liner that Attends diapers became well known for. It was called "micropore." Essentially it is a plastic liner on the inside of the diaper (the part that would touch the skin.). This gave diaper giving these diapers a really unique feeling against the skin. Basically the Child was wearing a diaper that was plastic on the outside, thick permadry fibers (giving the diaper its bulk) sandwiched between a Plastic liner with many small holes which Attends called the "micropore" liner. This makes the inside liner stick to the skin reminding the child the diaper is alway there, as it would feel like it needed to be peeled away constantly and stick to the skin. Like it or not, if you were a bedwetter in the 1980's and your parents wanted a "solution" to wet sheets in the middle of the night, these were one of the few products readily available. Also, in this era, betwetting had a lot more of a stigma attached to it.(oftentimes with shame and humiliation) Attends Diapers in size Small/Child, now gave parents a way to turn the threat of "being put back in diapers" for bedwetting, into a reality. If a child continued to wet the bed after they had out grown baby diapers, parents could go to the local Store or Pharmacy and purchase Attends diapers for the child. Although being back in diapers may have been humiliating or embarrassing for the child, it relieved the parent or child of having to change wet sheets in the middle of the night, and also improve the sleep quality of the child. It wouldn't be until 1994 (16 years after Attends were introduced) when Kimberly-Clark come out with Goodnites. The brand worked to reduce the stigma of bedwetting and help educate parents on how common it was to have a bedwetting child. (see photo) During the 1994-2000 time period Attends were still a widely popular choice of parents, as parents still held the belief that the threat of being put back in diapers and the humiliation of being diapered would help "encourage" a child if they were deemed as just being "lazy" by the parent. Also, comparativel,y Super absorbent Polymers (SAP) were still not as advanced as they are today and parents still had a trust in Disposable Diaper Like products (such as Attends) for bedwetting children. When Kimberly-Clarlk updated there Goodnites Website in Fall of 2002, they took direct aim at the competition. In the section of the website reaching out to Kids (the tab Called Kids, You're not alone). There is a link for kids to click for "3 reasons to try GoodNites" Their #1 marketing point to kids was to remind them that they could be put back in baby diapers (like the Attends), so be sure to ask your parents for GoodNites. (see pic). Otherwise you might end up back in baby diapers. Eventually more and more parents decided to use pull-up type products and now attends diapers made in this style are no longer available. Enjoy a piece of Diaper history in your collection. |
Hello and welcome.AttendsDiapers said:
Gosh do I wish they would come back . Just as long as they didn’t clump up .BabyTweetyBird said:
Would be very nice if they implement modern absorbency as a huge improvement.stinkape said:
I would definitely put my investment into a recreation of those vintage Attends, with all of the features @BabyTweetyBird just mentioned... with the exception of ONE feature: as an investor I would request that a "specialized" line be produced that featured diamond-embossed plastic in place of the glossy white plastic. This would result in a version of Attends that was NEVER produced, and indeed is a "missing" version of adult diapers altogether: an adult, hourglass diaper that features plastic similar to a vintage 70s Pampers diaper!BabyTweetyBird said:
In a few words you want an adult brief with all the aforementioned features and taffeta-embossed plastics instead of plain buttery smooth.70sPampers said:
Oh I miss those!, the plastic was buttery soft and its smelled like a true diaperBlacksmith said:
I have bought cheap unbranded sanitary towels before when I couldn’t afford anything better and sometimes they have a lining very similar to the photos of the attends, having never used the old style attends I can’t say they were completely identical but it certainly looked the same, plasticy with little holes. If somebody wants to recreate the old school diapers by sticking in a liner using cheap sanitary towels would be a much easier way to do it! Unfortunately I can’t remember specifically which brands were like this, only that they were cheap and not the major brands.Antientmariner said:
I still have one saved here in my vintage collection. The ABDL vlogger N3KO does a review of them on YouTube.... she's lovelyjamesattends said:
