If youre ordering a custom dress shirt one way to create your custom size is to measure your body. Based on their measurements the average shoulder width for american women was 144 inches 367 cm. Based on the shoulder measurements of 7476 men aged 20 years and older taken during the same. This body shape describes a person who typically has waist measurements that are less than 9 inches smaller than the hip or bust measurements. For example if your shoulders measure 36 inches your hips will be 34 14 inches or smaller. Biceps measure at its largest girth can be taken relaxed with arms at side relaxed with arm bent flexed with arm bent or all three.
For example you are an inverted triangle if your shoulders are 36 inches and your hips are 3425 inches or smaller. Your shoulder or bust measurements are more than 5 percent bigger than your hip measurement. This body shape describes a person who has broader shoulders and bust than they do hips. Banana straight or rectangle. The following explanations and videos will show how to measure for a dress shirt and create. You are an inverted triangle if your shoulder or bust measurement is more than 5 bigger than your hip measurement shoulders or bust hips 105.
Shoulder standing can either be measured as a straight line from the largest points on each shoulder across the chest or as a girth measurement all the way around the body. Pear spoon bell or triangle.