A method of making a prefastened refastenable diaper or other undergarment
includes the steps of forming a web of diaper material, cutting holes in
the center of the web as precursor leg cutouts and, placing a fastening
system divided between front and back waist sections onto each diaper
section of the web to prepare inchoate diapers having their long axes in
the cross machine direction of the web. Then the web is cut to define the
web into individual diapers. The diapers are then folded in half at the
crotch section, placing the fastening system section in lapping alignment
and fastening the system together. The diapers are then removed by the leg
holes to bundle and place the diapers in point of sale containers. The
method lends itself to simple in-line process machinery for accomplishing
the manufacture of the diapers. The method creates diapers which are
useful upon removal from the point of sale container as pull on training
pants and which may be easily removed in the fashion of a diaper by
separating the fasteners.