Absorbent garment (10), such as a diaper or an incontinence guard, said garmenthaving a longitudinal (y) and a transverse direction (x) and comprising a firstbody panel (11), a second body panel (12) and a crotch portion (13) therebetween,each of said first and second body panels having a waist portion (11a, 12a). Theabsorbent garment (10) is further provided with belt sections (14a, 14b) attachedto the waist portion (11a) of first body panel (11) and is adapted to be wrappedaround the waist of the user of the absorbent garment (10) and fastened togetherby means of first fastening means (17). The second body panel (12) at its waistportion (12a) is provided with second fastening means (19) adapted to be fastenedto at least one of the belt sections (14a, 14b) in such a way that the absorbent garment(10) will assume a pant-like shape. When tested on Cyclic Waist Expansion Testapparatus (25), as described herein, the absorbent garment (10) does not slipdown more than 15 cm from its initial position on the Cyclic Waist Expansion Testapparatus (25) during at least ten expansion/contraction cycles of the CyclicWaist Expansion Test and during at least 30 seconds after being subjected to atleast ten expansion/contraction cycles of the Cyclic Waist Expansion Test.
