The present invention provides a process for making the disposable wearing article (1) having front and rear waist regions thereof connected to each other along respective opposite lateral margins by the fasteners means so that the articles are regularly shaped even if the basic web material for the article is partially cut off to form gaps during the process.In the process a composite web (103) running in a machine direction (MD) is formed with a pair of rectilinear slits (121) extending in a cross direction (CD) and notches (131,133) intersecting these paired slits (121). A region (136) surrounded by these slits (121) and notches is cut away from the composite web (103) to form a gap (137). Before this gap is is formed, a fastener base sheet strip (123) is engaged with fastener means (116) previously bonded to the composite web (136) about the gap (137), to bridge the gap.
