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A garment, such as an incontinence control garment, having an opening to accommodate a part of the wearer\s body, such as a leg opening, includes one or more gusset folds at the opening and having at least a portion of the faces of the gusset fold, e.g., the lateral edges thereof, manually disengaga

A garment, such as an incontinence control garment, having an opening to accommodate a part of the wearer\s body, such as a leg opening, includes one or more gusset folds at the opening and having at least a portion of the faces of the gusset fold, e.g., the lateral edges thereof, manually disengagably bonded to one another, whereby the opening may be increased in size by manual disengagement of the bonded outer lateral edges. For example, a disposable panty-type garment having leg openings which are manually adjustable in size is provided, each featuring the disengagably bonded gusset fold structure described above. Also disclosed is a method for making garments such as panty-type garments, by the steps which may include cutting articles from a web of material, longitudinally folding the sheet to form a garment having closed leg openings, and folding the material at the opening to form gusset folds thereat which may be selectively opened to provide larger sized openings.

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A garment including at least one opening for encircling a portion of a wearer\s body and having at the periphery of the opening a gusset fold comprised of disengagably bonded together gusset faces, whereby the opening can be increased in size by manual disengagement of at least a portion of the bond

A garment including at least one opening for encircling a portion of a wearer\s body and having at the periphery of the opening a gusset fold comprised of disengagably bonded together gusset faces, whereby the opening can be increased in size by manual disengagement of at least a portion of the bonded together gusset faces. A panty-type garment having leg openings and including one or more gusset folds at the leg openings, the gusset folds comprising gusset faces being manually disengagably bonded to one another, whereby the leg openings may be adjusted in use to larger sized legs by manual disengagement of at least a portion of the bonded gusset faces. A method for making a garment having adjustable openings therein for encircling a portion of a wearer\s body, comprising the steps of: providing a garment having one or more of said openings therein; folding material at said opening to form therein gusset faces providing one or more gusset folds at the edge of said leg openings; and manually disengagably-bonding the gusset faces of a gusset fold to one another.