An absorbent article may have a Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette from about 2.3 to about 6, and a Product Waist-to-Side Silhouette from about 2.3 to about 6. An array of absorbent articles may have an Array Average Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette from about 2.3 to about 6, and an Array Average Product Waist-to-Side Silhouette from about 2.3 to about 6.

A wearing article making it possible to prevent a dimension in the transverse direction of respective recesses formed on an absorbent structure from being notably reduced even when the front and rear waist regions are disposed with waist elastic members directly or indirectly overlapping with the absorbent structure. The wearing article has a longitudinal direction parallel to a longitudinal center line, a transverse direction parallel to a transverse center line, a skin-facing surface and a non-skin-facing surface opposite to the skin-facing surface, and includes a chassis having a first waist region defined by one of front and rear waist regions and being elastically contractible in the transverse direction, a second waist region defined by another of the front and rear waist regions and a crotch region lying between the front and rear waist regions, an absorbent structure disposed on the skin-facing surface of the chassis and extending in the longitudinal direction across the crotch region into at least the first waist region and recesses disposed on the absorbent structure, the absorbent structure includes a first region defined in the first waist region and the recesses at least partially lying in the first region and extending in the longitudinal direction; and a shape retention panel is disposed on the non-skin-facing surface of the first waist region so that the shape retention panel may indirectly or directly overlap the first region and the recesses as viewed in a thickness direction of the article.

An absorbent garment has a minimum crotch width less than 30% the front region width. The absorbent garment has an absorbent member minimum width less than 80 mm. The absorbent member minimum width is less than 53% the minimum crotch width and is less than 60% the absorbent member maximum width.

Absorbent article having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction, a front portion, a rear portion and a middle portion located between the rear portion and the front portion is disclosed. The article has a first longitudinal side edge and a second longitudinal side edge extending in said longitudinal direction, and a first transverse side edge and a second transverse side edge extending in the transverse direction. The article includes a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet, and an absorbent core enclosed between the topsheet and the backsheet, and a first and a second fastening tab attached to said article. The first and second fastening tabs each has a first surface including a first fastener and a second surface including a second fastener.