Patent ID: 7827623

Claim:
A trunk-type or bloomers-type wearing article, comprising a main body including a front part and a back part spaced apart along a forward-and-backward direction and a crotch part coupling the front and back parts, the crotch part having opposite widthwise sides spaced apart along a width direction that is transverse to the forward-and-backward direction so that the crotch part defines a selected width, in the width direction wherein: the main body includes a pair of waist edges opposed to each other along the forward-and-backward direction and a pair of leg edges opposed to each other along the width direction, elastic members secured in a substantially widthwise middle portion of the crotch part of the main body between the widthwise sides of the crotch part so that a width dimension of areas of the crotch part that have the elastic members is narrower than the width of the crotch part and so that the elastic members form a shirring to shorten a space between the front and back parts, the space between the front and back parts is shorter at the widthwise middle portion of the crotch part than at both widthwise sides of the crotch part, the crotch part forming an inverted fork shape upon wearing the trunk-type or bloomers-type wearing article so that the widthwise sides of the crotch part are below the widthwise middle portion of the crotch part and so that the widthwise sides of the crotch part define parts of legs of the trunk-type or bloomers-type wearing article, and a ratio of the length of the crotch part along the forward-and-backward direction to a length between the pair of waist edges is 1:15 to 1:2.