A free tool that uses your bust, waist, and hip measurements to identify your body shape (hourglass, pear, apple, rectangle, or inverted triangle) - helping with clothing fit, styling choices, and tracking proportion changes over time.
Body shape is determined by comparing shoulder/bust, waist, and hip measurements. Here's the method:
The shape formulas:
Key insight: Body shape is about proportions, not weight. Any body shape can be healthy and beautiful!
Based on your measurements, we've determined your body shape. Each shape has its own unique characteristics and beauty.
Result = Validated health or fitness equation applied to the measurements and options entered. Review the methodology and limitations before interpreting the estimate.The estimate uses the requested body measurements and the equation identified in the formula section. Measurement technique, body composition, age, sex selection, hydration, pregnancy and medical conditions can affect interpretation.
A body shape calculator takes your bust, waist and hip measurements and using those it tells you what your body shape is (e.g. Hourglass, pear, apple, rectangle, inverted triangle), rather than you guess based on appearance.
This is important because things like clothing fit and style suggestions, even some health advice are determined by where your fat is located. This device is for anyone who wants better fitting clothes, stylist, health buffs and people interested in what their overall shape is, and wants to know it for real rather than just "a guess".
Body shape calculators help you achieve several practical benefits:
For instance, if a user shops online for jeans, they could use their Body Type result to select the right jeans whether its high rise style with a pear shape with your jeans or choose a classic flare leg to pair with boots the right way without having the problem.
Wearing a heavy garment or having your tape measure sit higher on your bust can skew your results by half an inch and will be able to give your any results of what range.
The pattern in which your body stores fat, be it around the hips, in the middle or evenly throughout, is dictated by inherited factors from your ancestors.
A change in body shape caused by shifts in your hormones and occurs through the phases of puberty, pregnancy and menopause.
Such gain or loss of weight can result in fat starting or finishing to move out of a completely different body part which might re-categorize your silhouette.
Targetting small areas through strength exercises with specific parts (like the shoulders) or by concentrating on glute exercises. This can alter your body's natural shape without the body gaining too much weight!
Skin is also flexible. Pliability and distribution of the body fats are modifications occur with aging that can subtly change the body shape, despite staying relatively constant in weight over years.
Natural differences with relation to how wide the shoulders, the size of a rib cage, or hip bone width create differing ratios irrespective of fat or muscle, more so with categories with rectangle or inverted triangle styles.
The upper (iliac) bones of the hip can become permanently separated as a result of pregnancy, and this is also a reason for alterations to fat storage patterns so body shape can alter following birth.
Categories include hourglass, pear, apple, rectangle, and inverted triangle. Not all categories are based on weight or size, but on your bust, waist, and hip measurements.
Use a measuring tape to measure your bust at the fullest, waist at the narrowest right above your bellybutton, and your hips at the widest. Keep the tape loose but not loose, measure without clothing.
Yes. As the years go by, weight change, hormonal alterations, pregnancy, hormonal changes and even strength-building can change how and where body fat is deposited. This can in turn put your assessed body shape back into an another category.
Women with an hourglass shape often have roughly the same bust and hip measurements, with their waist noticeably smaller in between.
The Pear or Triangle Shape: In this body type, the hips are considerably larger than the bust, with weight collecting heavily on the bottom, hips and thighs.
Apple shape definition has extra weight in her midsection. Her bust and shoulder are proportionate wider, but appearwider, than herhips, her midsection is also more undefined.
Measure under consistent conditions, calculate the result and record the date and method. Compare trends only when the same units and measurement technique are used each time.
Getting an accurate body shape result: Take 3 measurements that are recorded accurately. Use a flexible tape measure, wear tight clothing or measure on bare skin and stand naturally without pulling the tape measure too tight.
Add all three measurements up in the same units (inches or cms). It will hurt you to miss being moved into a better category by half an inch or so, but try measuring up two times and use the average.
| Body Shape | Key Proportions | Common Traits |
|---|---|---|
| Hourglass | Bust and hips roughly equal, waist notably smaller | Balanced, curved silhouette |
| Pear (Triangle) | Hips wider than bust | Weight concentrated in hips and thighs |
| Apple | Bust and shoulders wider than hips | Weight concentrated around the midsection |
| Rectangle | Bust, waist, and hips are similar in width | Minimal waist definition, straighter silhouette |
| Inverted Triangle | Shoulders and bust noticeably wider than hips | Athletic upper body, narrower lower body |
Knowing your body shape helps streamline the decision-making process for dressing to enhance your figure
It’s more than just the latest styles where we carry the body fat in body is also associated with health impacts .Researchers have measured their waste to hip ratio, by dividing ones waist size by the hip size which gives you a ratio .
But in women, a reading above 0.85 (and men, above 0.90) indicates that fat accumulation tends to focus on the abdomen - so-called apple shapes, as opposed to pear shapes where fat hangs around the hip area. Again, being a pear isn't necessarily all healthy, but body shape can contribute to doctors' assessments.
It is normal for body shape to change with age. Normal reasons are:
Re-measuring every couple of months, and especially after a significant lifestyle change, will do less harm and is probably more accurate than the results of a long outdated test.