The scans revealed 63 per cent of the women to be rectangular, with waists getting bigger and their curves becoming less defined with age.

扫描结果显示63%的女性是矩形身材，他们的腰部越来越粗，腰部曲线随着年龄增长日趋减少。

Just 38 per cent of 18- to 35-year-olds had the rectangular proportions but 80 per cent of those aged 56-plus met the criteria. Similarly, 30 per cent of young women had an hourglass shape, but the figure fell to 4 per cent in older women.

在18-35岁人群中，只有38%的女性是矩形身材，而在56岁以上人群中，有80%的人符合此标准。同样地，30%的年轻女性符合沙漏型身材标准，而在年老女性中，只有4%的人符合此标准。

The results, said shopping website isme.com, were even more telling when women were asked to pick their own shape. Whether they're an hourglass, rectangle, triangle (a leaner version of a pear), bottom hourglass, inverted triangle or top hourglass - only one in ten women can identify their own body shape.

据购物网站isme.com的调查，当女性被要求选出自己的体型时，对比结果更生动。无论他们是沙漏型、矩形、三角形（梨形身材的瘦弱版）、下半身沙漏型（肩部较窄，下身较宽）、倒三角型和上半身沙漏型（上身较大，臀部较小），只有十分之一的女性能准确选出来。

On top of this, a quarter don’t believe their figure fits in with any of these traditional body shapes.

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