Patent ID: 8128771

Claim:
A method of producing a clothing article comprising the steps of: (a) joining a first continuous web having stretchability in its longitudinal direction in a longitudinally stretched state along an edge portion thereof to a longitudinally substantially inextensible second continuous web to make a continuous composite sheet, (b) joining the composite sheet obtained in step (a) to a third continuous web only along the edges of the composite sheet and the third continuous web and a laterally middle part in the longitudinal direction to make a continuous-form outer cover and then joining the outer cover on its side to a member of the clothing article to make a web assembly, and (c) cutting the web assembly obtained in step (b) to length; wherein the first continuous web is selected from the group consisting of (1) a sheet having an elastic fiber layer and an extensible fiber layer united to one or both sides of the elastic fiber layer, (2) a sheet having an elastic net sheet and an extensible fiber layer united to one or both sides of the elastic net sheet, (3) a sheet having an elastic film and an extensible fiber layer united to one or both sides of the elastic film, and (4) a stretch sheet having an extensible nonwoven fabric and a large number of elastic filaments arranged to extend in one direction without intersecting with each other and bonded to the extensible nonwoven fabric over their whole length in their substantially nonstretched state.