# Average size torso, really short legs?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 10, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-size-torso-really-short-legs/634340 "2012-09-10T22:05:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-size-torso-really-short-legs/634340/21 "2012-09-12T21:46:35Z")

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My husband has the opposite: short torso/long legs. I mean REALLY short torso - his waist is immediately south of his armpits.

I’m constantly amazed at the variation in people’s anatomy.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-size-torso-really-short-legs/634340/22 "2012-09-12T22:08:48Z")

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> [@Becky2844](#):
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> My husband has what we call a short wheel-base. He’s long waisted, six feet tall, and our inseams are the same. (30") I’m 5’ 3".
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> He’s not freakishly disproportionate, but his calves look “compacted.” Bulgingly strong, really, and has short shins and broad flat feet that make me think of a caveman. His toes are kind of clubbed and all shaped differently; they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. I can just see him planted on the lip of a cliff in front of a cave, ready to ward off saber tooth tigers.
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> We buy him Big/Tall shirts and men’s “short” jeans. (They don’t call it petite.) 😛

Pretty much the same situation with me and my wife. Remember though that men leave more room in the crotch, so inseam equivalence isn’t the same as leg length equivalence.

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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-size-torso-really-short-legs/634340/23 "2012-09-13T19:36:22Z")

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> [@Rick](#):
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> I am long waisted. I’m 5’7" tall with a 26" inseam. So this one time I went to meet two business men, a father and son. They were sitting down when I came in. We talked, I could tell they weren’t short as I had to look up a bit (not much, but a bit) to see eye to eye with them.  
> Came time to leave, and they stood up. Daddy was 6’8", and the son must have smoked or did something that stunted his growth, as he was only about 6’5". I felt like I was standing between two redwood trees.  
> These two guys were the two most short waisted tall people I have ever met in my life.  
> I asked, daddy’s inseam was a foot longer than mine, 36"

Part of your problem is the fact that a foot measures TWELVE inches, not ten.  
~VOW

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