Disposable absorbent underpants

Disposable absorbent underpants including a main body of underpants comprising a water-permeable topsheet destined to be in contact with wearer's skin, a water-impermeable backsheet located on a side opposite to the topsheet and an absorbent core sandwiched between these two sheets, and elastic members adapted to form elastic gathers in a waist band and a pair of leg-holes, respectively, wherein said pair of leg-holes are defined by corresponding cutaway areas formed in laterally opposite sides of a crotch area as viewed in a developed condition of said main body;

• wherein said elastic members associated with said leg-holes surround the corresponding cutaway areas except the outer edges thereof as viewed in the developed condition of said main body;
• and wherein said main body is assembled by folding said main body along a mid-line dividing said main body into vertically contiguous two halves back onto itself and then joining these two halves folded back onto each other along laterally opposite side edges of the folded main body.