am i hourglass or pear?

karachitee195

i know u may have heard it all before but plz help...so heres the delimmea ladies....until 6 months a go i had a realyy bad posture...i mean slouchy shoulders and hunched back so when ever i looked in the mirror i always sawe a pear...(may be cause of the fact slouchy shoulder appear smaller) but then when i started correcting it i saw tht my shoulders were actually broad....and now em confused weather wm pear or apple...help ladies here are my measurements
shoulders...39 inch
bust....32c(34 inch at widest)
waist...27 inch
hip bone(from where the hip starts)....34.5 inch
hip (at widest)........39 inch

12 years ago

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Irene

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it's better if you post a photograph, because this is a matter of visuals. If you do not want to show your face, which is completely understandable, you can chop it off or paint it over.

you do sound like an hourglass though

12 years ago

Lyn D.

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Let's see a pic, if you can?
I would actually guess at pear with your measurements, because your chest area is not particularly wide?

12 years ago

April

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KC195 -- the measurement you want is the width of your shoulders, waist, and hips straight across the front, rather than using a measuring tape to go around. A picture is better (standing up straight in something form-fitting such as a cami and leggings), but measuring across can help as well.

For example, I know that my shoulders are a full 30% wider than my hips going straight across the front, and my waist across the front is not very different from my hips -- hence, I'm an Inverted Triangle.

12 years ago

Suz

(website)

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It actually sounds like you are a small busted hourglass with possible rectangle tendencies - shoulders and hips about the same and a waist but not a sharply defined one. But pictures tell the real story.

12 years ago

karachitee195

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thanks ladies but how can i have rectangular tendencies when my waist is more than 10 inch smaller than my hips

12 years ago

(website)

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I think Suz might have seen the 34.5 measurement first and not the 39. I know it confused me. You definitely have a defined waist. I share similar stats, except my hips are a tad smaller, and I'm an hourglass. Thought I was a pear for years, but my weight seems to be leaving my hips in favor of my waist since I turned 40 lol!
If you can link to a pic somewhere it would help a bunch.

12 years ago

rachylou

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I think length of torso factors, whether your hips are "low" or "high". So if you're shoulders and hips are equidistant from your waist, you are hourglass. But if there's more distance between waist and hips, you're pear.

12 years ago

karachitee195

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ok ladies celbrating some festival right now but em gonna be putting up pics v sooon....so wasit measurements is suppose to be the smallest part of ur waistline right

12 years ago

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