A wearing article improved so that the waist-opening can be easily folded back along a fold line extending in a transverse direction without increasing the stiffness in the vicinity of the waist-opening. A diaper 10 includes front and rear waist members 20, 30 and a crotch member 40. A liquid-absorbent structure 41 of the crotch member 40 is formed outboard of in a longitudinal direction Y of a core 42 with front and rear flaps 46, 47 exclusively composed of an absorption surface wrapping sheet 43, a leakage-barrier sheet 44 and a bottom surface wrapping sheet 45. The front and rear waist members 20, 30 include first regions 71 overlapping the front and rear flaps 46, 47, respectively, second regions 72 lying adjacent to the associated first regions 71 and third regions 73 lying adjacent to the associated second regions 72. The front and rear waist members 20, 30 are provided with the first, second and third waist elastics 81, 82, 83 attached between respective inner and outer sheets in the first, second and third regions 71, 72, 73, respectively. A tensile stress of the first regions 71 and the third regions 73 is adjusted to be lower than that of the second regions 72.
