PANT-TYPE WEARABLE ARTICLE

Disclosed is a wearable article continuous in a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction comprising a front elastic belt region, a back elastic belt region, a crotch region, a waist opening, and a pair of leg openings; the crotch region extending longitudinally between the front elastic belt region and the back elastic belt region; wherein each of the front and back elastic belt is a laminate comprising an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and a plurality of elastic members running in the transverse direction, wherein the laminate further comprising an elastic adhesive bonding which continuously bonds the elastic member for at least about 10mm in the direction of stretch in a region adjacent the side edges of the front and back elastic belts, and a discrete patterned adhesive bonding applied to at least one of the inner sheet and the outer sheet with intervals in the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction to intermittently bond the inner sheet and the outer sheet, wherein the discrete patterned adhesive bonding at least extends substantially along the transverse dimension between the elastic adhesive bonding, and substantially along the longitudinal dimension between the distal edge and proximal edge of the front and back elastic belts, wherein the elastic adhesive bonding and the discrete patterned adhesive bonding are provided by the same adhesive agent; wherein the laminate is bonded by heat at the side edges to form side seams, the side seams existing no distant than about 20mm from the side edges, and the remainder of the laminate may be free of heat bonds.