The present invention provides a disposable pants-type wearing article improved so as to eliminate a possibility that elastic members attached to peripheral edges of respective leg-openings might irritate the wearers skin.The disposable pants-type wearing article has a band-like elastic member 30 having a width dimension in a range of 5 to 60mm and extending along peripheral edges of leg-openings 12 so as to go half around each of the leg-openings 12. The elastic member 30 comprises opposite end segments 32 each lying in the uppermost zone of the leg-opening 12, a middle segment 31 lying in the lowermost zone of the leg-opening 12 and extending across a crotch region 6 and intermediate segments 34 each extending between the associated end segment 32 and the middle segment 31 wherein the intermediate segments 34 are not bonded to sheet material constituting the wearing article 1.
