A disposable wearing article adapted to prevent the buttocks from being exposed externally during use of the article and to ensure a desired fit of the leg-openings' peripheries to the wearer's body so as to prevent leakage of body exudates. A disposable wearing article including an annular elastic waist panel composed of a front waist panel and a rear waist panel joined to each other and a crotch panel provided with an absorbent structure and connected to the elastic waist panels wherein respective inner end edges of the front and rear waist panels cooperate with lateral edges of the crotch panel extending in a longitudinal direction to form a pair of leg-openings' peripheries, wherein the crotch panel includes a pair of leg sheets connected to both lateral edges of the absorbent structure wherein the respective leg sheets include inner regions adj oining to the absorbent structure and outer regions adjoining the inner regions so that the inner regions rise above the absorbent structure along both lateral edges of the absorbent structure to define the leg-openings' peripheries and the outer regions are bent outwardly in the transverse direction so as to define the leg-openings' peripheries.
