Provided is a pants-type wearing article including a connecting member by the intermediary of which respective lateral regions of front and rear waist regions are connected together. In a pants-type wearing article 1, a lateral region 8 L of a front waist region 2 and a lateral region 9 L of a rear waist region 3 are connected to each other by the intermediary of a sheet-like connecting member 6 L . The connecting member 6 L is folded to form mountain folds 41 L , 42 L and valley folds 51 L , 52 L arranged alternately and collapsed in a circumferential direction C. These mountain folds 41 L , 42 L and valley folds 51 L , 52 L are expanded from the folded state in the circumferential direction C as these folds are pulled in the circumferential direction C.
