A wearable article continuous in a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction comprising a front elastic belt , a back elastic belt , a crotch region , a waist opening, and a pair of leg openings; the crotch region extending longitudinally between the front elastic belt region and the back elastic belt region; wherein at least 10%, preferably at least 15% and not more than 70%, of the longitudinal dimension of the front and back elastic belts from the waist opening is a laminate in active elasticity defining an Upper Gather Region , the laminate comprising an inner sheet , an outer sheet , and an elastic member continuously running in the transverse direction, wherein the laminate further comprising an elastic bonding which continuously bonds the elastic member for at least about 10mm in the direction of stretch in a region adjacent the side edges of the front and back elastic belts, and a vertical bonding applied to at least one of the inner sheet and the outer sheet with intervals in the transverse direction to intermittently bond the inner sheet and the outer sheet , wherein at least one of the inner sheet and the outer sheet comprises a plurality of deformations wherein the deformations are aligned in the longitudinal direction; wherein the vertical bonding has a transverse dimension VG2 and is a continuous pattern aligned in the longitudinal direction, each longitudinal pattern of vertical bonding spaced apart from each other with a transverse pitch VG1, wherein VG1 is from about 2mm to about 15 mm, and VG2 is from about 0.2 mm to about 7 mm; and wherein at least one of the inner sheet and the outer sheet comprises a plurality of deformations wherein the deformations are aligned in the longitudinal direction, each longitudinal deformation pattern spaced apart from each other with a transverse pitch of DF1, wherein VG1 is greater than DF1, preferably VG1 is at least about 1.5 times as DF1. wherein at least 10%, preferably at least 15% and not more than 70%, of the longitudinal dimension of the front and back elastic belts from the waist opening is a laminate in active elasticity defining an Upper Gather Region , the laminate comprising an inner sheet , an outer sheet , and an elastic member continuously running in the transverse direction, wherein the laminate further comprising an elastic bonding which continuously bonds the elastic member for at least about 10mm in the direction of stretch in a region adjacent the side edges of the front and back elastic belts, and a vertical bonding applied to at least one of the inner sheet and the outer sheet with intervals in the transverse direction to intermittently bond the inner sheet and the outer sheet , wherein at least one of the inner sheet and the outer sheet comprises a plurality of deformations wherein the deformations are aligned in the longitudinal direction; wherein the vertical bonding has a transverse dimension VG2 and is a continuous pattern aligned in the longitudinal direction, each longitudinal pattern of vertical bonding spaced apart from each other with a transverse pitch VG1, wherein VG1 is from about 2mm to about 15 mm, and VG2 is from about 0.2 mm to about 7 mm; and <EOS>