Patent ID: 7074215

Claim:
A disposable garment adapted to be worn about a lower torso of a body of a wearer and comprising: a chassis including a topsheet, a backsheet joined with the topsheet, and an absorbent core interposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, the chassis having a front region, a back region, and a crotch region positioned between the front region and the back region, the chassis including side edges and end edges and having a body-facing surface and a surface that faces away from the body of the wearer; a pair of fastener elements for attaching portions of the side edges of the chassis at the front region to other portions of the respective side edges of the chassis at the back region such that each of a pair of side panels overlies a hip area of the wearer and thereby form a pair of laterally spaced leg openings and a waistband defining a waist opening spaced from each of the leg openings and including a body-facing waistband inner surface, wherein the waistband and the side panels are elastically extensible; and at least one garment retention zone positioned interiorly of the garment at the body-facing waistband inner surface, the garment retention zone having a surface slip resistance of at least about 1000 gm and having a coefficient of static friction that is at least about 200% greater than that of other portions of the body-facing waistband inner surface, to assist in retention of the garment in a desired wearing position on the body of the wearer, wherein the body-facing waistband inner surface includes at least one pivotable flap that covers the retention zone so that pivoting of the flan exposes the retention zone, the flap including a first, body-facing surface having a first coefficient of static friction and a second surface that initially faces away from the body of the wearer and that has a second coefficient of static friction different from that of the first surface, the second surface forming the retention zone when pivoting of the flap exposes the second surface.