More Diaper Photos

Toree has recieved her diapers! Here's what she says:

"I GOT MY DIAPERS!!! Fist of all, she claimed she was sending them several times. Then claimed to have sent them on May 7th, but the post mark is May 11th. Nearly 3 months after I ordered them!! The address I have on the "package" is:

PO BOX 3817
Paducah, KY 42002-3817

Here is the "package" I got:


The delivery confirmation # was never emailed to me. However, it was on the package. I tracked it back to the post office in Paducah.

And now on to the actual diapers themselves...

4 out of 5 were the fabric i picked out. They have a faint smell of cigarette, but mostly just smell musky. The soaker is 1-3 layers of whatever fabric she had laying around.

Here are the two I cut open:



The 5th one was completely weird. It felt very hard and stiff. So I cut it open and guess what's inside??? A TABLE CLOTH!!!!!!!! Hmmmm, sound familiar??? Here is the inside of them. This one has a table cloth inside:


The others have PUL inside, but it's only a strip of PUL.

The stitching isn't bad. 4 of them are actually not terrible, for $5 anyways. i would NOT consider them to be AIO's (which is what I ordered) but more like fitteds. The main thing wrong with them is that they tabs are not long enough to fit around a baby's body to velcro them to the front. So even if they were the best materials, they still would be unusable."

Okay, folks. You may have heard rumors that there's a lady who sells $5 diapers online that are made with tablecloth material instead of PUL, and we might just have finally tracked her down. And what is that brown fabric that she lined the last diaper with, felt? Honestly? 100% polyester, water-resistant, non-washable, FELT? This is not just atrocious workmanship, it's false advertizing. Her website specifically says the soaker is 3 layers of flannel, which is really not nearly enough, anyway. (Not to mention the PUL she promised.) And this is not the first person I've heard from who hasn't even been able to put the diaper on their baby because the tabs won't fit. How do you decide to make diapers for sale without ever actually trying one of your diapers on a baby?

One last thing - I'v just become more convinced about the Prep and Posh connection. Not only has Prep and Posh been accused of using tablecloths instead of PUL, as we see happening here, but look at the velcro tabs. See the square of velcro on the outside of the tabs that's for crossing the tabs over one another on a small baby? None of the diapers pictured on Ladys and Lads have that. The ones on Prep and Posh do.

See Them For Yourself

A woman names Christa was one of the lucky ones who did receive a diaper from Ladys and Lads. She was disappointed, to say the least. She says, "I only ordered two thank God! Here's what you get for $5 AIOs (I actually ordered All in Twos but hey): The outside fabric is just as I ordered and expected. The inside fabric is some sort of very cheap polyester flannel material (she told me that all the materials would be cotton). The shape of the diaper seems to be good. The stitching is horrendous (this is what it would look like if I tried to make one, hmmm...) and the soaker is sewn in crooked in both. Last but not least, the PUL is only on the back of the soaker part!!! Now this is my first AIO but I'm pretty sure this won't work, right? Oh and wait... they smell like smoke. I'm a former, sometimes still do, smoker and I can smell it a mile away and these reek!" She sent me these photos so we could see what it looks like:

She says, "I washed the diapers once and put them on my son (the white stuff is just powder from trying on the diaper). They wouldn't even stay on. The elastic was too tight for the size of the diaper and so it pulled on the velcro until it gave way." Note how the soaker is sewn in crooked and off-center, and there is no top-stitching around the edges of the diaper.

She says, "This is after I'd ripped a couple of seams and turned them inside out. The blue stuff is the PUL lining." You can see how the PUL only covers the soaker area. How will it keep the moisture from leaking out the sides if it's only covering the center? The leg elastic area is the most likely place for leaks, and in this diaper it's not protected at all. The huge seam allowance on the PUL also explains the bunchy apperance of the diaper from the outside.