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  2. Female body shape - Wikipedia

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    A woman's bust measure is a combination of her rib cage and breast size. For convenience, a woman's bra measurements are often used as a proxy. Conventionally, measurement for the band of a bra is taken around the torso immediately below the breasts, with the tape measure parallel to the floor.

  3. Body proportions - Wikipedia

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    On this (latter) metric, the most attractive ratio of leg to body for men (as seen by American women) is 1:1, [12] matching the 'four heads:four heads' ratio above. A Japanese study using the former metric found the same result for male attractiveness but women with longer legs than body were judged to be more attractive. [13]

  4. Body shape - Wikipedia

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    The trapezoidal shape is what gives steotopygia its specific shape and appearance if anything steotopygia is a trapezoidal figure from front, sideways and the back. Android pelvis is the largest is size, density and mass. The gynecoid is the widest relative to its size. The anthropoid has the widest foreman.

  5. Physical attractiveness - Wikipedia

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    Both men and women judge women with smaller waist-to-hip ratios more attractive. [254] Ethnic groups vary with regard to their ideal waist-to-hip ratio for women, [ 255 ] ranging from 0.6 in China, [ 256 ] to 0.8 or 0.9 in parts of South America and Africa, [ 257 ] [ 258 ] [ 259 ] and divergent preferences based on ethnicity, rather than ...

  6. Hourglass figure - Wikipedia

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    It has been proposed by scientists that the evolutionary reason for the female body shape is due in part to this sexual selection.Sex-typical body shapes (a man's muscular physique and a woman's hourglass figure) are an outcome of evolutionary adaptation for reproductive fitness because they convey information about gene quality, health and fertility, which are important elements for mate ...

  7. Feminine beauty ideal - Wikipedia

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    In China, the practice of foot binding involved a girl's feet being bound at age six to create the "ideal" image of feet. The girl's feet were bound to become 1/3 of the original size, which crippled the woman, but also gave her a very high social status and was much admired. After the revolution of 1911, the practice of foot binding was ended.

  8. Ella Ewing - Wikipedia

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    The Guinness Book of Records has stated she measured 7 feet 4 and a half inches tall, and may have reached 8 feet 3/4 inches by the time she died. As typical of many people afflicted with pituitary gigantism Ella's arms were very long, with her hands and feet exceptionally big.

  9. File:Body mass index chart.svg - Wikipedia

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    This Adobe SVG chart is very large because its creator kept the superfluous Adobe PGF or other CDATA garbage The file size of this SVG chart may be irrationally large because its text has been converted to paths inhibiting translations.