How did people get diapers in world war 2?

Answer 1

Diapers were made of cloth in the 1940's and 50's ( paper ones didn't come out until the 1960's) so parents bought cloth diapers, had a diaper pail where they kept the dirty ones, washed them out, and then ran them through a washing machine everyday. In the United Kingdom and the United States during WWII they had clothing, fabric and all sorts of rationing. Getting new cloth diapers was difficult. They had to make their own diapers out of old towels, rags, sheets or repair old diapers as best as they could. My Aunt told me women would also pass down cloth diapers to new moms. When they did wash the diapers they had to hang them on a clothes line with clothes pins because the modern dryer still had not been produced widely for home use. Dryers were mainly for commercial use. Some rich people actually had diaper service during WWII and even after the war. Some women received diaper service as a present. It was heavenly to get that. Personally I prefer the cloth diapers over paper diapers since there is no stinky trash to fill up the landfills. They would have been mortified in WWII to see paper diapers going to a landfill. They had a motto during WWII "Make do or do without. Wear it out or reuse it." Oh, we forgot to tell you they had little plastic or rubber panties to put over the cloth diapers.