Patent ID: 8172822

Claim:
A wearing article which comprises: a chassis having longitudinal direction and transverse direction; an inner side facing the skin of a wearer and an outer side facing a garment worn by the wearer; a first waist region defined by one of front and rear waist regions; a second waist region defined by the other of said front and rear waist regions; a crotch region extending between said first and second waist regions; and a mechanical fastener including first engagement regions formed in a pair of first lateral zones of said first waist region which are opposed to in said transverse direction and extending in said longitudinal direction and having a mechanical fastener function and second engagement regions formed in a pair of second lateral zones of said second waist region which are opposed to each other in said transverse direction and extending in said longitudinal direction and having a mechanical fastener function and adapted to be detachably engaged with said first engagement regions, wherein said first engagement regions include hook elements and said second engagement regions include loop elements, said hook elements comprise a base layer bonded to said chassis, shanks vertically extending upward from said base layer and heads formed on respective distal ends of said shanks and a plurality of deformed regions are intermittently formed over the entire area of array of said hook elements in which at least said heads of said hook elements have been deformed under a pressure-treatment along the entire extent of the deformed region, wherein said deformed regions comprise a plurality of stripes extending continuously in said transverse direction from a first longitudinal outer edge of the first engagement region to a second longitudinal outer edge of the first engagement region, and space apart from one another in said longitudinal direction.