Disposable pants-protecting painter's chaps

Disposable pants-protecting chaps comprising:

• an upper waist portion configured to extend circumferentially at least part way around a worker's waist;
• two spaced protective hands wiping thigh portions attached to and depending from the waist portion and configured to wrap at least partially around the worker's thighs to cover at least front portions of the thighs;
• said hands wiping thigh portions comprising a sheet of non-absorbent non-woven composite barrier fabric material comprising a non-absorbent outer hands wiping face and an inner face configured to conform and hold its shape relative to a worker's thigh;
• a single thigh fastening strap attached at an attachment point along an inside edge of each said hands wiping thigh portion at a mid-thigh location adjacent a lower end of a contoured crotch cutout and configured to extend around the back of the worker's leg and fasten to an outer edge of an outer face of a portion of the worker's thigh at a corresponding mid-thigh fastening point to secure said hands wiping thigh portion across a front of the worker's thigh;
• wherein,
• each said hands wiping thigh portion comprises a lower unsecured portion below the mid-thigh location including a lower free unsecured edge spaced farther from the respective thigh-fastening strap than the thigh-fastening strap is spaced from the lower end of the contoured crotch cutout.