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. Our body shape calculator uses the measurements of your hips waist and bust to determine your body shape. 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. Find this out by looking at your shoulder bust and hip measurements. 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. How to take measurements.
Our body shape calculator needs four measurements to accurately determine your body type. Just under 14 were apple shaped. 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. The more accurate you are now the better youll look later. To dress your body right you have to know your body. 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.
Call the largest of the three measurements t usually it will be your shoulders and the. 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. No one shape is for skinny girls and no one shape is for curvy girls. A study of more than 6000 women conducted at north carolina state university in 2005 revealed that 46 of women were banana shaped. Even if you have the body of spongebob squarepants you can look great. Confirm by checking the numbers.
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. 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. You can use the measurements you took for the body fat calculator. Body shape calculator there are 8 female body shapes calculate yours now with the original 3 measurement body type calculator. Just over 20 were pear shaped. And only 8 were hourglass shaped.