Pant-type garment and method for the production thereof

A pant-type garment having a length direction and a width direction and being divided in the length direction into a front portion, a back portion and a crotch portions located between the front portions and the back portion, the front portion having a front waist edge extending in the width direction and a pair of opposing side edges extending in the longitudinal direction and the back portion having a back waist edge extending in the width direction, and a pair of opposing side edges, extending in the longitudinal direction, the front and back portions being joined in a first and a second side seam arranged in first and second side seam regions and being formed by superposed layers of the front and back portions along the opposing side edges of the front and back portions, the first and second side seam regions comprising thermoplastic web material, the side seams being constituted by fused thermoplastic material extending along the side edges of the front and back portions of the pant-type garment,

• wherein each of the side seams has a width in the width direction of the pant-type garment in the range of from 0.3 to 1.5 millimetres, and a thickness in the range of from 0.2 to 1.5 millimeters, the thickness of the side seam being perpendicular to the width direction and the length direction of the pant type garment and in that the material of the front and back portions comprises an elastic laminated comprising an elastic film which is stretch-bonded between two outer nonwoven webs, the side seams being fully or partly formed in the elastic laminate.