I work part-time in a high-end wine/charcuterie restaurant and have the pleasure of meeting many women that are drop-dead sexy but are nowhere near the proportions DAZ and character creators consider "normal".
This has led me down a rabbit-hole of real-life research into the "average" proportions of American women ages 19-45 showing the discrepancies between DAZ normal and real-life normal.
Firstly, I am 6ft 1in (185cm) tall. Pretty tall by normal standards. It is very rare that I meet women that are as tall or taller than me but the default G8F character is 6ft (183cm) tall and many popular G8F models are actually 6ft 2in (188cm) tall. This is far from typical or average but considered "normal" in the DAZ world.
So I started really digging into the differences between "DAZ normal" vs. "real-life normal"
Let's first look at DAZ normal:
Default G8F Measurements
Height 6ft (183cm) (Height morph can only get it down to 5'7" (170cm)... Still 3in or 18cm taller than real-life 'average')
Bust 36in (91cm)
Under Bust 30in (76cm)
Waist 26in (66cm)
Hips 38in (96cm)
Then look at the actual average measurements of a 19-45yo American woman...
US Women's Average Measurements*
Height 5ft 4in (162cm)
Weight 170 lbs
Bust 39in (99cm)
Avg Under bust 30in (76cm)
Avg Waist 39in (99cm)
Avg Hips 43in (109cm)
*Different countries have slightly different averages
Mmmm... some big differences. In the USA, only 1% of women are 6ft tall or taller but DAZ 'normal' is 6ft to 6ft 2in tall. Funny that so many G8F character designers hype their bodies as hyper-realistic when just the height alone is very unrealistic.
The countries with the tallest 'average' height for women are Latvia and the Netherlands, still only measuring in at an average of 5ft 7in (170cm) tall.
I've really started factoring this in when working with females in DAZ... 99.9% of Daz characters are very un-normal when compared to real-life drop-dead sexy women. It would be a very strange world if all of the women you encountered were all 6ft-6ft 2in tall
Enter "Alice".
Realistic proportions, far from DAZ normal but still sexy as fuck and more realistic
Height 5ft 8in (174cm)
Bust 38in (96cm)
Under bust 32in (81cm)
Waist 33in (84cm)
Hips 46in (117cm)
She would be considered "plus-size" by the fashion world. Search DAZ assets for plus-sized women and this is the crap you get...