The present invention provides a wearing article improved to facilitate wrinkles created in a front waist region as well as in a rear waist region to be smoothed. A diaper 10 includes front and rear waist members 20, 30, a crotch member 40 by the intermediary of which these front and rear waist members 20, 30 are connected. The front and rear waist members 20, 30 extend from waist ends 22, 32 toward the side of a crotch region 13 and respectively include first regions 71 overlapping front and rear end flaps 46, 47 of the absorbent structure 41 and second regions 72 adjacent the respective first regions 71, In the front and rear waist members 20, 30, the first regions 71 and the second regions 72 are provided with first waist elastic members 81 and second waist elastic members 82 so as to be sandwiched between the respective top- and backsheets 24, 25； 34, 35. The respective second regions 72 are formed with inelastic zones 72a overlapping the core 42 and elastic regions 72b lying on both sides of the inelastic regions 72a in the transverse direction. The tightening force of the respective first regions 71 are set to be lower than the tightening force of the respective second regions 72.
