Find this out by looking at your shoulder bust and hip measurements. Even if you have the body of spongebob squarepants you can look great. Our body shape calculator uses the measurements of your hips waist and bust to determine your body shape. To use the calculator and figure out your body shape just choose whether you would like to enter your measurements in metric or imperial type in your hips waist and bust measurements and click calculate. To dress your body right you have to know your body. If your waist measurements are about the same as your hip or bust and your shoulders and hips are about the same width you have whats called a banana or rectangle body type.
No one shape is for skinny girls and no one shape is for curvy girls. Just over 20 were pear shaped. How to take measurements. You can use the measurements you took for the body fat calculator. And only 8 were hourglass shaped. Just under 14 were apple shaped.
The only reason you should know your body type is so that you can know what areas of your body you might like to play up or areas you never thought of as attractive. Measure at the fullest point of your bust with a soft measuring tapemake sure that the tape is not too tight by breathing in and out. This body shape typically presented as the ideal describes a person with hip and bust measurements nearly equal in size with a narrower waist measurement. To learn your body shape grab a tape measure and enter these measurements in the below calculator bust waist hips bloggers web masters and fashionistas get t. Body shape calculator there are 8 female body shapes calculate yours now with the original 3 measurement body type calculator. Our body shape calculator needs four measurements to accurately determine your body type.
A study of more than 6000 women conducted at north carolina state university in 2005 revealed that 46 of women were banana shaped. The more accurate you are now the better youll look later. Call the largest of the three measurements t usually it will be your shoulders and the. Believe me mirrors can be deceiving so grab a measuring tape and a friend to help you because its very difficult to measure some parts of yourself and get it right. You are a rectangle if your waist is less than 25 smaller than your shoulder or bust waist shoulders or bust 75 and your shoulder bust and hip measurements are within 5 of each other. Confirm by checking the numbers.