PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pants type disposable diaper that prevents the lateral leak of excretions, and avoids deterioration in the feelings of body fitness, diaper use or appearance, besides the easiness for a helper to assist a user in its wearing or the user to wear it without others help.SOLUTION: In this pants type disposable diaper 1A, a flexible front crotch material 60A arranged at a front crotch 66 is fixed in a stretched state at the area where the material 60A is not put on top of an absorptive body 22 located at the front crotch 66, so that the imaginary extension lines from the circumferences E1, E2 of leg opening parts 12 can mutually cross one another. A flexible rear crotch material 62 arranged at a rear crotch 68 is fixed in a stretched state along the both circumferences of the leg opening parts 12 located at the rear crotch 68. Of the absorptive body 14, a crotch part arranged directly under the crotch 4 is formed to be even narrower than the narrowest absorptive body part and placed within the width of this narrowest part for its storage inside the outer diaper body 16.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】補助者が着用者に装着させること及び着用者が自ら装着することが容易であることに加えて、排泄物の横漏れやフィット感の低下を抑制することができ、おむつの着用感や見栄えを損ない難いパンツ型使い捨ておむつを提供する。【解決手段】股下前部66に配置される股下前部伸縮材60Aは、その軌跡の延長線とレッグ開口部12の開口周縁E1,E2とが交差するように、股下前部66における吸収体22との非重畳部に伸張状態で固定され、股下後部68に配置される股下後部伸縮材62は、股下後部68におけるレッグ開口部12の開口周縁に沿って伸張状態で固定され、吸収性本体14のうち股下部4に配置される股下配置部は、最狭部より幅狭に形成されるとともに、最狭部の幅に収まるように外装体16の内部に配置されているパンツ型使い捨ておむつ1A。【選択図】図1B