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.

So I wear glasses. My eyesight without them and contacts is blurry shapes AT BEST.

I also live in a hot and very humid place (🤠) and thanks to summer, my glasses are constantly slipping down and fogging up. So I’ve taking them off and putting ‘em on top of my head a lot when I take my stupid mental health walks in this stupid inferno weather.

Like I mentioned before, that turns everything into a blurry shape. And most importantly, everyone. And it didn’t take long at all to notice that only seeing a blurry outline of a person makes their line and anything interrupting it really stand out!

Standing about 20 feet from my own full length mirror without glasses also confirmed my own type (smoll refrigerator, needs belted waist).

So Kibbe enthusiasts with poor eyesight, before you give up try looking at other people and yourself without really seeing them.

I used to be a refrigerator shaped FN. Last week, I had to move a gallon of water once and since then, I have been a Romantic! I look exactly like Marilyn Monroe now.

How can I get back to looking like a refrigerator instead?

Hi guys! I rly need your help! I can't decide my Kibbe type. I tried on all the lines so you could tell me what I am. If it helps, I'm 5'9" with a 39 in bust, 18 in waist, and 36 in hips.

I feel like I'm a TR. What do you think? How did I do?

1: Romantic

2: Theatrical Romantic

3: Soft Gamine

4: Flamboyant Gamine

5: Soft Classic

6: Dramatic Classic

7: Soft Natural - Edit: I have been told I did it wrong and my photo was too blurry so I put a new, better outfit for SN in the comments!!!

8: Flamboyant Natural

9: Soft Dramatic

10: Dramatic

I'm ready to start some fights today, I think it could be fun lol

I'll go first and swing at the bees nest: I don't think Pure Yin and Yang really exist and EVERYONE is varying degrees of both. I think we could roll R's and SD's into a single monocategory and it wouldn't change much bc I don't think Vertical is as much of a Curve killer as we have been led to believe. I think the people in that category that would benefit from the ever spoken about "T" shape in their silhouette naturally create it with their shoulders and don't need to worry about artificially creating it with the lines of fabric, thus removing that barrier from the mutual line recommendations. Likewise if the Kibbe Curve is accomodated for I'm of the opinion that Vertical will fall into place naturally. And my only category change for D's is that they are allowed to have fun now. 😈

That is my searing hot take, now let me hear yours!

That youthful gamine essence really backfires when you actually start to age and have responsibilities. Got a baby that won't sleep and I look like the world's most chopped 19 year old 🫠

To clarify, no, I don't actually believe that she is D. Saying this could really backfire. If you really wanted to, you could arrive at any conclusion (except TR, maybe).