Patent ID: 8449517

Claim:
An absorbent article comprising a chassis having a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction, a skin-facing side, a garment-facing side, a front waist region, a rear waist region and a crotch region extending between said front and rear waist regions, these three regions arranged continuously in said longitudinal direction; and a waist region elastic member attached under tension along an end of at least one of said front and rear waist regions, wherein: said waist region elastic member includes slits extending in said longitudinal direction therethrough in its thickness direction and said slits are adapted to be stretched in said transverse direction under the effect of said waist region elastic member to form through-holes; and said waist region elastic member further includes a first graphics display region defined on said garment-facing side in combination with respective peripheries of said slits so that said first graphics display region cooperates with said through-holes to form a graphic art.