Body Type Calculator
Enter your bust, waist, and hip measurements to find your shape and watch a live silhouette adjust to match.
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Enter your details and tap Calculate to see your results appear here.
Your result appears here.
What Body Type Tells You
Body type describes how your bust, waist, and hips relate in size. Five common shapes show up again and again: hourglass, pear, apple, rectangle, and inverted triangle.
Knowing your shape helps with clothing fit and with spotting where you tend to store fat. It is a styling and awareness tool, not a health diagnosis.
This calculator also returns your waist-to-hip ratio, a number with real links to health risk.
How to Use This Calculator
- Choose metric or US units.
- Measure your bust, waist, high hip, and full hip with a soft tape.
- Enter each measurement in its field.
- Tap Calculate to see your shape and a matching silhouette.
The Formula Used
following the Female Figure Identification Technique (FFIT) thresholds.
WHR = waist / hip
- bust, waist, hip
- Circumference measurements at the fullest or narrowest points.
- high hip
- The upper curve of the hip, just below the waist.
When bust and hip sit close in size and the waist is much smaller, the result is an hourglass. Larger hips point to a pear, a larger bust to an inverted triangle, and a soft midsection to an apple.
Understanding Your Results
Tips for Working With Your Shape
- Dress to balance your proportions, not to hide them.
- Watch your waist-to-hip ratio for a health signal.
- Train your whole body, since spot reduction is a myth.
- Re-measure every few months as your body changes.
Frequently Asked Questions
The five-shape system was built for female figures, but the calculator also works as a rough guide for any frame using the same ratios.
Shape itself is mostly cosmetic. The linked waist-to-hip ratio, though, does carry health meaning.
Yes. Weight gain, loss, and training all shift your measurements and can move you between shapes over time.
Scientific References
- Lee, Y. A., et al. (2007). Validation of the Female Figure Identification Technique (FFIT) for apparel. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 25(4), 290–303.
- Singh, D. (1993). Adaptive significance of female physical attractiveness: Role of waist-to-hip ratio. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65(2), 293–307.
- World Health Organization. (2008). Waist Circumference and Waist-Hip Ratio. Geneva: WHO.