Patent ID: 7823223

Claim:
A pair of underpants comprising a front part, a back part, a crotch part and two leg holes delimited by the parts, a releasable connection having two parts that join in an overlapped region when in a closed condition to connect the crotch part to the front part and form an edge portion of each of the leg holes and that are separated from one another when in an open condition to allow an opening to be formed in the crotch area, with one of the two parts of the releasable connection connected to the front part of the underpants and extending from one leg hole to the other and including a flexible protection element attached to an end of the one part of the releasable connection that is connected to the front part of the underpants so that the flexible protection element extends from an edge portion of at least one of the leg holes and is so configured to wrap over and at least partly cover the edge portion of the at least one of the leg holes when the releasable connection in the closed condition.