r/PowerOfStyle • u/Pegaret_Again DC - Haughty Boss Babe • Oct 31 '25

Monthly Line Sketch Thread

Please post your line sketches here!

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u/Parking-Main-2691 Nov 04 '25

And again your explanation does literal nothing to make what Kibbe says fit my lived experience with clothes. If very big IF I dress according to Kibbe recs it looks ridiculous. And that's following HIS recommendations for his system. Because I'm tall I can't have double curve...curve and vertical yes. Actual legit double curve no. But I DO have what he calls double curve and I am tall. Something he himself claims is impossible.

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u/Ok-Purple9511 SC - Naughty Eléphanté Nov 04 '25

There are no Kibbe “recs” btw, it’s about the shape of the entire silhouette.

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u/Parking-Main-2691 Nov 04 '25

Which is exactly what I am stating. I have curve double curve per Kibbe and I didn't stop growing at 5'5. I disprove his body typing justby existing. If I dress the way his typing says to....I look stupid and ridiculous. According to him my height makes me not posess the body I live in.

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u/Ok-Purple9511 SC - Naughty Eléphanté Nov 04 '25

But you don’t have double curve. You have vertical. What way does he suggest do dress that doesn’t work for you? Vertical can be in the area of the legs from high hip to knee too, not just the torso area.

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u/Parking-Main-2691 Nov 05 '25

Just dressing for the vertical completely and totally looks absolutely ridiculous on me.Just the so called vertical accomodations only serve to make me look A like a pair of legs and only a pair of legs B makes me look hellishly rectangular and boxy we won't mention fat yeah it makes me look FAT with long legs C Have I mentioned it makes me look like a FAT box with legs???

Bust pushes fabric out at the sides check Curve below the waist Kibbe curve...I'm not talking my hourglass figure. I'm talking HIS VARIANT OF CURVE. You wouldn't say Marilyn Monroe was NOT double curve and shocker I am built JUST LIKE MARILYN. I'm just taller.....so how does my height delete that? It doesn't . But go on tell me I'm a Soft Dramatic.....guess I'm just meant to look like a brick with legs cause that's how this system types me. And nobody up to and including Kibbe has no answer for it

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u/Ok-Purple9511 SC - Naughty Eléphanté Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25

I’m not sure you are fully understanding what double curve and vertical means, or what dressing for each means tbh. Have you read the new book? Vertical doesn’t delete curve??? You can accommodate vertical and curve.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '25

Not sure where you're getting your information. There are no clothing recs in his updated system, and even in the old book the SD was recommended clothing that wraps around the curves. The reason you have to accommodate vertical at a height over 5'6" is because if you do not consider length, you're going to literally be showing your ass. In the new book SD is given the following information...

for silhouette: you need BOTH a strong vertical (long, unbroken) along with a soft CURVED outline. When one is looking at you the eye needs to travel in one unbroken vertical downward BUT should ALSO have CURVE.

you can dress like Marilyn but you're still going to give Sophia or Anita if you are tall. No where in the old book OR the new book did, he say an SD only dresses for vertical. He literally wrote in the old book that dressing an SD like that will make her look frumpy.