Body Proportions

The following tables where adapter from Annie Richards website "The Birth of Venus - Articles and Information", which is no longer with us :(, with her permission by me. Her source was "...derived from a US Army sponsored study done in the 1970s(?)...".

Enter a height in decimal to see how your measurements would be proportioned as Female and Male.  
For example a height of 5' - 7" would be enterd as "67" for inches, or "170.18" for centimeters.
The results should be good for males 5-0(152cm) to 6-4(193cm) or
females 4-8(142cm) to 5-11(180cm), this covers most people, or
female to male comparisons of the same height, 5-0(152cm) to 5-11(180cm), the female/male overlap.

Standardized Body Proportions for a height of 67in

Notes on the above table.

1. "Trunk Circumference" and "Adjusted Trunk Circumference".
   The multipliers given on Annies' page seem wrong. I'm 5'9" and my trunk is not 65.27" as it would be using the numbers given on the "Trunk Circumference" line which uses 0.945 for males and 0.946 for females, also doesn't a female have a smaller trunk than a male, but the multipliers are the other way around, so I played around and came up with 0.514 for males, and 0.440 for females, these seem to give close results, but are just a guess on my part.
2. "Bra Size (Band Cup) (using Adj. Trunk Cir.)".
   The whole bra size is only a close approximation based on a couple of retail store catalogs. I round both Trunk and Bust before doing the calcs. For a better answer plug the Adj-Trk and Bust numbers into the bra size calc page at 85b.org

Part of the reply I got from Annie to an eMail I sent her, in it she gives her permission to use her info as the bases for this page and talks about her source.

Dear Robyn

...snipped...

I have no problem about you using any data you want from my website, thanks for asking for permission!

The "Body Size" page generates an amazing amount of emails - often from students. Clearly, and perhaps surprisingly, there is not much else on the web with that kind of info. My source was a book that I borrowed perhaps 3 years ago from a library. Basically the info it gave was derived from a US Army sponsored study done in the 1970s(?), this measured the physiques of several thousand students and was undertaken to make sure that the Army ordered the right uniform sizes! Sadly I can't remember the name of the book, nor could I find it when I looked again a while ago so I can't check the suspect data, but it could well be a typo on my part.

Portions copyright Robyn C. Wright and Annie Richards