Patent ID: 8486040

Claim:
A wearing article comprising a chassis having a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction, a skin-facing inner side, a garment-facing outer side, a front waist region, a rear waist region and a crotch region extending in said longitudinal direction continuously between said front waist region and said rear waist region, and front and rear waist sheets attached to said front and rear waist regions, respectively, wherein said chassis is contoured by a pair of front waist region's side edges opposed to each other in said transverse direction and extending in said longitudinal direction, a pair of rear waist region's side edges opposed to each other in said transverse direction and extending in said longitudinal direction, a pair of crotch region's side edges extending between said pair of front waist region's side edges and said pair of rear waist region's side edges and front and rear end edges opposed to each other in said longitudinal direction and extending in said transverse direction and wherein said front waist region's side edges and said rear waist region's side edges are joined together along a pair of joint arrays to form a waist opening surrounded by said front and rear end edges and to form a pair of leg-openings surrounded by said crotch region's side edges, said wearing article wherein: said front waist sheet extends in said transverse direction from one of said front waist region's side edges to other of said front waist region's side edges in said chassis, said rear waist sheet extends in said transverse direction from one of said rear waist region's side edges to other of said rear waist region's side edges and said front and rear waist sheets are spaced from each other in said longitudinal direction in regions defined by said joint arrays.