Kenji Ando, Tochigi, Japan; Yasuhiro Umeki, Tochigi, Japan; and Toshiaki Ichimata, Tochigi, Japan. Assigned to Kao Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.

Filed: 12/24/09
Issued: 4/5/16

A wearing article, comprising: a plurality of sheets; wherein at least one sheet of the plurality of sheets comprises a section in which an elastic member has been disposed, in its stretched state, on the sheet, wherein a disposition section of the sheet where the elastic member has been disposed is provided with extensibility by subjecting the disposition section to draw processing in a stretching direction of the elastic member; wherein the elastic member is joined to the sheet in its stretched state and thereafter draw processing is performed on the disposition section of the sheet while keeping the elastic member stretched; wherein gathers are formed in the draw-processed disposition section such that a multitude of creases of the elastic member are regularly aligned; wherein in the disposition section of the sheet, a plurality of thread-like elastic members are disposed between the plurality of the sheets with a predetermined interval; wherein the creases of one sheet and the creases of another sheet form an undulating line along the stretching direction of the elastic member; and wherein the elastic members are continuously fixed to the sheets in the range in which the draw processing is performed.