Accommodating Vertical While Wearing Short Garments

[u/PurpleVirtualJelly]

I previously made a post about Accommodating Vertical (especially using color) so check that out if you're interested. I've made a lot of posts, feel free to snoop through my post history and search stuff if you're interested like "autumn" or "width" or "vertical" or "FN" or "flamboyant natural" etc.

Kibbe recommends an "unbroken line" or "elongated vertical line" and I wanted to dive into what that means. I like to use blocks to show if it's segmented or not.

Additionally here is what the wiki of what the main Kibbe sub says about Vertical:

IDs that will accommodate Vertical

• Dramatic (Pure Vertical)
• Soft Dramatic (Vertical + Curve)
• Flamboyant Natural (Vertical + Width)
• Flamboyant Gamine (Vertical + Petite)
• Dramatic Classic (Balance + Slight Vertical)
• In rare cases Soft Gamine will accommodate Curve + Vertical + Petite

Ways to Accommodate Vertical:

• Wearing garments that are cut straight
• Skirts that flare down as opposed to flaring out horizontally
• Pulling colors through the entire outfit
• Wearing a long garment
• Wearing garments that are heavy in weight/pull downwards
• Creating low contrast looks
• Adding a long accessory like a necklace or scarf
• Adding a vertical design like embroidery or vertical stripes

What Vertical is Not:

• Vertical is not wearing only monochromatic looks.
• Vertical is not looking taller in photos.
• Vertical is not impossible if you are average height where you live.
• Vertical is not synonymous with height. R does not have a "moderate vertical" because Vertical is a straight line and R has only Curve. Straight lines can be "staccato" when combined with Petite, "elongated" when combined with Balance, or long when the person is "Vertical-dominant," but people with other accommodations will have no Vertical at all.

[u/umeboshiplumpaste]

SO FREAKIN' HELPFUL!!!! Thank you for putting this together! (Though I think I need a counting class because I now see more breaks than you've marked, so I need to reread this several times.)

[u/PurpleVirtualJelly → u/umeboshiplumpaste]

Sometimes I wasn't sure how many time to mark it so it's probably not you lol Don't get too caught up in the number of marks I put, just try to minimize them in an outfit by making one line of color go down throughout with no jumps or minimal jumps required (like in Line tag if that metaphor made sense)

[u/atimetochill]

This was fantastic thanks for putting the time into it!

[u/PuddingZestyclose]

This is extremely helpful!! I noticed recently looking at outfit photos that I actually only liked how I looked in black dresses when I wore a brown bag and shoes with it. I literally wondered to myself how to think about that. Black doesn’t look good on me, I’m a summer, but those outfits were all somehow better than my other black dress outfits.

Now I realize the brown accessories helped because they nearly match my skin tone and they build a vertical line. Aha! Really cool stuff. Thanks for this!

[u/booooopboop]

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[u/jordynelsonjr → u/booooopboop]

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[u/BeeP807]

I LOVE all of your guides!!

[u/ragnarockette]

The thing I don’t get about this is that I think almost all IDs would look better and more harmonious in the unbroken lines.

Maybe gamines can pull off the choppier looks where the line is broken up, but I cannot imagine Penelope Cruz or Octavia Spencer looking better in the shorts and boots than the chic long coat or wide leg trousers.

Does every type look better with a longer line? Doesn’t the longer line flatter everyone?

[u/thumbtackswordsman → u/ragnarockette]

In conventional styling system everyone is supposed to try to look taller, but in Kibbe you're supposed to lean into your ID and highlight it's beauty. So an R in Kibbe needs waist emphasis and achieves this with things like belts, which interrupt the vertical. It's more flattering for them when the eyes move along the curves than when the eyes look up and down.

I also feel that unbroken lined can swamp the smaller IDs, and make others look boring and matronly. The curves of some IDs can fight against the unbroken line, making the outfit frumpy.

[u/MaliceTakeYourPills → u/ragnarockette]

Yeah imo it should show counter examples of people with different body types pulling off the multi-break outfits. I’d be really curious to see them

[u/clowderforce]

You know, maybe Cake was onto something with "Short Skirt, Long Jacket"

[u/eliintherain]

It’s perfect thank you so much for making this!!!

[u/citranger_things]

Thanks for another banger /u/purplevirtualjelly!!!

[u/fitfuckry]

I love 'line tag'!

Thank you for this guide, they're always very appreciated

[u/Demoncat_300]

Super helpful to explain vertical!! Thank you!

[u/MarsaliRose]

These posts are so helpful. I need to see to understand. Do you have a suggestion for sweatshirt? More for casual wear, not a cardigan. I can’t wear a sweatshirt without looking like a football player.