Process of making boxer shorts from a web

A method of making a pant having side seams and hanging legs, comprising:

• providing a continuous web comprising a plurality of pant assemblies connected to one another, each pant assembly having a front region, a back region, and a crotch region extending between the front region and the back region;
• folding the continuous web against an internal support structure;
• contracting at least one of the plurality of pant assemblies of the web in at least one selected area to define a contracted crotch area within the crotch region, wherein the crotch area is contracted relative to the front region and the back region;
• cutting said at least one of the folded plurality of pant assemblies with a single cut to define two openings of a single one of said folded pant assemblies and a separation between the front region and the back region while maintaining a seamless connection between the front region and the back region in the contracted crotch area;
• attaching an absorbent structure to the web;
• and
• attaching the front region and the back region together to form boxer shorts having side seams and hanging legs.

A method of making a pant having a first region, a second region, a crotch region extending between the first region and the second region, side seams and hanging legs, the method comprising:

• conveying a continuous web of a plurality of pant assemblies connected to one another in a machine direction;
• folding the continuous web against at least two internal support structures wherein the at least two internal support structures are parallel to each other and parallel to a direction in which the web is conveyed, wherein each machine direction conveyed plurality of pant assemblies is folded against a single one of the at least two internal support structures;
• contracting the web in at least one selected area in each pant assembly to define a contracted crotch area within the crotch region;
• cutting at least one portion of the folded web with a single cut to form two openings of a single one of each pant assembly, wherein the at least one cut portion further defines a separation between the first region and the second region in each pant assembly while maintaining a seamless connection between the first region and the second region in the contracted crotch area;
• and
• attaching the first region and the second region of each pant assembly together to form boxer shorts having the side seams and hanging legs.