Classic pear shapes are characterised by having their hips and bottom wider than their shoulders and bust. If you have a slimmer upper body but tend to carry your weight around your hips and lower half, you’re likely a pear shape.

What type of shape is a pear?

The Pear shape is also called the “triangle” or “A -shape”. There are fewer variations in this shape than others–all Pears have smaller upper bodies, and proportionally larger lower bodies. The variations come in where Pears carry extra weight.

What is going pear shaped?

Definition of go pear-shaped British, informal. : to go wrong She was in debt, and when she lost her job it all went pear-shaped.