Basically, you take a boostable liner, which has wings, and put a wingless booster underneath it if you need to. You can use an absorbent booster and/or or a thin water resistant booster for extra security.

You can leave out the winged liner and use boosters alone if you'd rather not have wings.

• Heavy pad: Boostable liner on top, absorbent booster in the middle, water resistant booster on the bottom.

• Medium wingless pad: Absorbent booster and water resistant booster, or two absorbent boosters stacked.
• Medium winged pad: Boostable liner and either an absorbent or water resistant booster.
• Light wingless pad/liner: Any contoured absorbent booster
• Light pad/liner with wings: Any boostable liner.

You can carry pads in a small make-up bag or wrap them tightly in a swath of leak-proof fabric. You can also find bags made for carrying pads in Etsy shops and elsewhere on the web.

These pads have secure and easy all-fabric fastening systems. Very comfortable on a bicycle seat! To stack and fasten the pads, lay the liner on top of any boosters you're using and wrap the wings around the boosters and your underwear.

The standard fastener is a loop and tab. To fasten, pull the tab on one wing through the loop on the other wing.

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Another option is a tab and button hole. With this fastening system, both of the wings are tucked up under each other so they won't tickle your thighs. Wings tickling your thighs could be a bother if you're wearing thin liners under loose clothes, especially if you have the pads cut narrow.

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Topper and SoakerTwo, in most cases. For most women, a regular pad consists of a liner over a booster.

liner, absorbent booster, water resistant boosterFor heavy flow or if you want to go a long time between changes, you may want to add a second booster.

You can get by with just one piece for spotting, really light flow, or for a postcoital pad.