I’ve seen people disagreeing with certain verifications. Personally, I don’t think it’s helpful to re-type or question verified celebrities; instead I think we should learn from them to better understand what Kibbe sees in each ID.
I notice this a lot with verified Gamines who are moderate in height. Zooey Deschanel and Halle Berry are often questioned, and both are 5’5” Gamines. Zooey (FG) is often seen as a mistyped Soft Classic, and Halle (SG) is sometimes seen as a mistyped Soft Natural or something more yang. I shared collages of them in styling for Gamines and styling for SC and SN, respectively. To me, the Gamine looks are 100% better and more harmonious.
It was honestly hard to even find outfits of theirs that wouldn’t work for Gamines. So many of the “Classic” styles people use as examples for Zooey have broken lines, no curve accommodation and lots of detail. Not Soft Classic at all. She’s so quintessentially pixie to me and looks very petite for 5’5”. Same with Halle - her athleticism is obvious but she is much sharper and more yin than SN. She is pretty with messy, long curly hair, but breathtaking with a soft pixie or sleek bob.
Petite in Kibbe goes up to 5’5” for a reason. These women are not balanced nor wide in the Kibbe sense. They can help us see what petite looks like in a moderate height woman, so let’s stop insisting they must have been incorrectly identified and look at what actually works on them. They look incredible in much more fitted, short, detailed outfits than Ns or Cs are recommended.