A wearing article in which non-contractible regions on which contracting force of elastic members does not act are formed in front and rear 
waist belts and in which the elastic members do not protrude from the non-contractible regions and are not caught by the non-contractible regions. The front and rear 
waist members (5, 6) have mounted thereto the 
waist elastic members (18) extending in the vertical direction (Y). The waist elastic members (18) form the non-contractible regions (35), on which contracting force of the waist elastic members (18) does no act, without being superposed on portions where 
graphics of heat-bonded sheets (16, 17) are formed. The non-contractible regions (35) are formed in center portions in the lateral direction (X) of the front and rear waist belt members (5, 6) by 
cutting the waist elastic members (18) mounted in a stretched state without applying an 
adhesive agent between inner and outer surface sheets (12, 13)(14, 15). On the 
crotch-side edges (21, 22) of the non-contractible regions (35) are formed joined sections (36) where the inner and outer surface sheets (12, 13)(14, 15) are joined together by heat sealing.