Strawberry Singh touched on a common topic yesterday: What are your avatar proportions? Why did you pick them, and what is average? Heaps of folks are dropping trou to submit their shapes for appraisal, and I’m all about it! Plus, I’d been wearing the same outfit for two weeks and needed to let my skin air out

We all love our shapes dearly and hold the details close to the chest. I think exercises like this are fun because we all view ourselves as “normal” and proportional, while others might see us as odd looking or even deformed! But who cares, right? Use those trash-bin-cover-sized hands to shovel food into your virtual kitty’s mouth. Make your skull so big that your hair will look like a growing Chia Pet. Enjoy your SLife and shape!

My Size!

Height: 40 [5'2" according to the SL viewer]
Head size: 50 [I'm surprised to see so many avatars with bigger heads. I wonder if they're custom fit to certain brands?]
Torso length: 43
Leg length: 50
Arm length: 74
Hand size: 20
Body Thickness: 19
Body Fat: 28
Belly size: 10
Breast size: 68
Hip width: 65
Hip length: 44 [I haven't noticed many people talking about how important this stat is to the appearance of one's body]
Butt size: 40

You’ll notice I didn’t waste the space to put my foot size since I’ve never known anyone not to have size zero feet. Sometimes Second Life has forced us to use certain numbers on our sliders in order to fit commonplace items like shoes, hair, and skins. Even with alpha layers becoming more popular to hide feet, the common size is still zero to accommodate shoes that are made to be used with the natural mesh.

Want to share your avatar and see what other avatars you know decided what head, hand, and butt size should be? Check out the Flickr group “What’s your Digits?” [sic]