IN THE DISCLOSED ABSORBENT ARTICLE (1), IN A FRONT TORSO-SURROUNDING REGION (S10A), THE DISTANCE (D1) BETWEEN THE ELASTIC MEMBER (100A) THAT IS MOST TOWARDS LEG-SURROUNDING OPENINGS AMONG A PLURALITY OF ELASTIC MEMBERS THAT EXTENT ROUGHLY LINEARLY IN THE WIDTHWISE DIRECTION (W) AND THE EDGES (E1) THAT ARE ON THE LEG-SURROUNDING OPENING (P) SIDE OF THE FRONT TORSO-SURROUNDING REGION (S10A) IS CONFIGURED IN A MANNER SO AS TO GRADUALLY SHORTEN AND THEN GRADUALLY LENGTHEN WHEN GOING FROM BOTH SIDE EDGES (C) TOWARDS THE CENTER IN THE WIDTHWISE DIRECTION (W). (FIG. 3)
