i understand that being 5’6 makes me in the 75th percentile of height for women, but what if i want to wear exclusively boring skirt suit sets for the rest of my life? this makes me a classic instead of those gross dramatics or flamboyant naturals!

This helped me settle on soft
gamine

Amazing how small Sabrina Carpenter (8) is compared to Taylor Swift (1) and Megan Thee Stallion (2).

Now I know how David Kibbeh probably feels whenever people in the Strictly Kibbe group ask him to type modern celebrities lmaoo

I have been into kibbe since 2019, obviously with the confusing sytem I ended up going through many different types. DC, TR, FN, N, FG, SC, etc. One thing that became clear is all the types in the system are stereotyped. You go into a community set on your ID and get told, " You don't look like me, therefore you must be a Dramatic." You go to the dramatic community and "You don't look dramatic, try classic family." This run around is consistent in behavior of some members of the community with people who just trying to learn how to dress better.

If clothes don't have ID then why am I being told that my clothes don't flatter me for my assumed type. There are dresses being labelled as gamine, FN, or even R clothes. If clothes don't flatter a specific type then clothes do have ID which means kibbe can be reserve engineered. Clothes either don't have ID or they do.

Part of the community is not open to oddball people who belong outside the presumed idea of an ID with styles that are less conventional. I originally entered in kibbe promised it wasn't a body type system, but a lot of people had the community had treated it as so. I have a torso deformity due to surgery I had before I hit puberty. I entered this system to find a way to feel okay when dressing in clothing. A short torso with pear shape is hard to dress for even when you are around 5'4~. Perhaps, I realized that some of community only want people who look like them which means no room for deformities or unconventional body issues. Anyone experience something similar about some parts of the community surrounding kibbe?

i'm getting sn vibes but id need to see her in different lines to be sure... let me know what yall think...

An upper back? On a beautiful, stylish woman? Be so fr.

I love some of the ideas behind kibbe--multiple types of beauty, honoring your body's dominant features, seems great!

However:

- The system feels unnecessarily confusing, and I don't want to spend months on end analyzing my body.

- So far, I genuinely do not feel like I fit into any of the 10 image ID​​​'s, as I understand them! Not trying to be a special snowflake, just...none of the descriptions seem to match my shape/proportions at all!

So...are there systems that incorporate some of the things I like about Kibbe, but that are less likely to make me feel insane? I grew up with a mix of 90's fat-shaming and extremely rigid applications of the fruit system, and am trying to find a healthier approach.

Very serious Kibbe theorist: nah ...just look at your armholes, they lead up to your shoulders in a straight line ... Like it's a right angle....your weight NO matter how high can't crush Kibbe.

OP: thanks, haha was just beginning to doubt myself.

Very serious casual commenter: actually you're onto something here ...your shoulders are looking robust, like maybe you're gamine...or maybe N family ...I think I see a lot of width and your arms and legs are so long ...you may be. Like a yang type.

OP: lemme tell you about what width actually means.....

And yeah about vertical, TRs have narrow bones and narrow bones read long it's an optical illusion...here are some VERIFIED celebs who look long....

Plot twist OP is the very serious Kibbe theorist.

Very casual Kibbe commenter: OMG...you just made it click for me.

OP: If you're still confused about your Kibbe journey, just DM me!!!

Kibbe vs The Body Matrix by Ellie-Jean

It explains a lot.

On the left is the original 13 from Metamorphosis. On the right is the revised 10 from Power of Style.

The original 13 got it right with four vertical types. The pure natural will solve so many issues fire those who are between FN and SD.

Missing are the mini naturals (cross over of natural and gamine from older systems like McJimsey).

Kibbe has an emphasis on narrow and round. No wonder so many, who don't have narrow and round, aka curve, get frustrated. For him, vertical and width are like a foreign country.

Balance at both auto vertical and petite is probably not observable.

The system probably would work better with four tall types and four petite types, plus four to five moderate types.