The six body shape types
Every shape below is a comparison between your own measurements, not a size. Each one has a rule you can check with a tape measure and no judgement attached.
Hourglass
Bust and hips measure close to level, with a waist that comes in sharply enough to read from across a room.
Pear
Your hips measure more than your bust and shoulders, with the waist still clearly drawn above them.
Apple
Bust and hips read close to level, and the widest measurement falls through the middle rather than at the shoulder or the hip.
Rectangle
Bust, waist and hip run close to straight, with no one measurement dominating the outline.
Inverted Triangle
Your shoulders and bust measure wider than your hips, so the outline tapers downward.
Spoon
A hip-dominant figure like the pear, but the hip steps out sharply at the upper thigh instead of curving gradually.
How body shape is worked out
Four measurements decide it: bust, waist, hips and shoulders. What matters is not how large any of them is but how they compare to each other, which is why every shape here exists at every size.
The order of the comparisons is what most calculators get wrong. Dominance is tested first — whether the hip or the shoulder clearly outmeasures the other end — and only then is the waist considered. A figure with wide hips and a soft waist is a pear, not a rectangle, and testing the waist first would call it the wrong thing.
What the calculator shows you for a 36-29-40 figure.
hip 40 > max(bust, shoulder) 36 × 1.05 → hip-dominant · PEAR
Every result comes with the comparison that produced it, so you can check the answer instead of trusting it.
Which one are you?
Four measurements, one answer, and the maths shown. Nothing leaves your device.
Run the calculator