Figure types Figure types refer to the proportion of one's body. Do you know your figure type? Are you short, tall, fat, thin, average, square shouldered, round shouldered, bulging or drooping? Eating balanced meals, exercising regularly and practising good posture at all times will greatly help to improve and/or maintain your figure type.
Individual vary in shape, so commercial patterns and ready – made clothes are made to fit standard categories of body builds, known as figure types. Overall height is one indicator of figure type, but far more reliable are length of torso and position of bust, waist and hips. The sketches in Figure 18.8 represent four standard figure types. The dark bands indicate the total range of measurements for bust, wait and hips. When comparing your figure with the standard types, take special notice of difference in back, neck-towaist length and the distance from shoulder level to apex of bust.
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Fig. 18.8(a) Examples of figure types
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