A pants-type wearing article includes front and rear waistregions connected to each other by a fastener member in adetachable and refastenable manner. Each of the fastener memberincludes a sheet-like supporting element adapted to be folded ina Z-shape or an inverted Z-shape as the front and rear waistregions are put flat together and a fastener element. Thesupporting element has a top section, a bottom section and anintermediate section connecting the top and bottom sections.Between opposed surfaces of the bottom section and theintermediate section, a sheet-like liner section is provided soas to extend from a bottom section's openable end of the bottomsection along these opposed surfaces toward a top section'sjoint end.
