Patent ID: 7335190

Claim:
A method of concurrently providing a series of types of training pants to consumers, comprising: providing a first sub-series of disposable pant-like garments, wherein the first sub-series includes a first garment type in at least two different sizes designed to fit wearers in at least two different size ranges, the first garment type having a first level of absorbency for a first garment size and a first level of absorbency for a second garment size, wherein the second garment size is larger than the first garment size; and providing a second sub-series of disposable pant-like garments, wherein the second sub-series includes a second garment type in at least two different sizes, namely a third garment size and a fourth garment size that is larger than the third garment size, each of the third and fourth garment sizes overlapping, at least in part, the size ranges of at least one of the first and second garment sizes in the first sub-series; each of the garments of the second sub-series having a second level of absorbency for the third garment size and a second level of absorbency for the fourth garment size, wherein the second level of absorbency is lower than the first level of absorbency for a garment in the first sub-series overlapping at least a portion of the same size range; and each of the garments in the first sub-series is adapted for a first stage of toilet training, and each of the garments in the second sub-series is adapted for a second stage of toilet training subsequent to the first stage.