I Tried Kibbe Recommendations for 4 Different Body Types (to see if it ACTUALLY makes a difference!)

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Team soft natural 100%

I think Soft Natural styling fits you in a beautiful and elegant way.

So many people use Kibbe, color analysis, style essence etc. as rules instead of tools. They are confused because they think dressing according to these will give you style but style is taking who you are and expressing that to the world around you through the clothing you wear. Even if dresses opposite of best lines or colors if it’s authentic to the person it’ll likely work (there are some exceptions).😊

Soft natural, with boyish/masculine/dramatic styling ! In any way, you look beautiful 🤩

Based on your choices you are with no doubt a natural and in my opinion soft. 👍

I think the soft natural versions look very harmonizing on your body 😊

The outfits with waist emphasis look best on you. So Soft Natural? I think the clothes that are loose or big on you overwhelm your body. For dresses, ankle length or above is more flattering on you.

I liked soft natural the most.

Although the others look fine; I think the slight waist emphasis in the soft natural silhouette is very flattering.

I wish that we could have seen all of the outfits with your face included. That being said, I really think that natural family vibed with you while the DC and FG looked incongruent with your frame especially that cropped jacket. Donate that puppy now! I liked a little bit of oversizedness. I think your instincts were correct. You could do another video pairing FN and SN and show your face. Then we can say for sure.

My vote goes to Soft Natural!

I think SN. Tied shirt was great. I think the watercolour on the maxi breaks the vertical and makes it suitable for SN. I can see width in your shoulders and curve/flesh in your legs like you said. I don’t see vertical though, which is why I think you feel better showing ankle skin in the flowy trousers. The dramatic classic blouse was also flowy, so a “natural” version of structure. However, I’ve kind of given up on figuring out my exact type and just experiment because the system seems very finicky.

I definitely think you were right the first time. I have never thought you could be anything other than a natural. I see a lot of bluntness , some width and I do see length . I think the gamine dress looked very disharmonious on you due to the narrowness , the short length and the narrow straps , it just made your shoulders look even wider and stronger and it looked very off , the stripe crop top and narrow trousers looked off on you but the same outfit with width looked fine . I think you would look great in fn or sn lines . Maybe go to a shop and try a cowl neck / draped neckline top and see if that resonates with your body?. Taking in all the details and rules in mind I'm most like an SG on paper but I don't actually look good in SG lines I just look disharmonious and silly but the TR lines look perfect on me and the details resonate well. At the end of the day it's an holistic approach not a rule book . It's not about what looks good on paper but what actually looks good on you ,It's about how we can look our best , what the best lines are for us , it's not about trying to squeeze ourselves into a cookie cutter shape it's about what looks harmonious on our body and what makes our body shine . With the details on paper most people seem to forget that

The tied shirt looks the best in my opinion. The blazer is too long and over-sized. The long dress: I like it with the belt. But the white dress was my favorite. The shirts: the last one. I love stripes!

Tying the shirt at the waist and the belted waist are great on FN as well as SN because neither are severe at the waist. I'm an FN and wear both.

I like the Soft Natural styles on you the best. Although you do look adorable in some of the FG, you seem much more comfortable in the SN. Great video❤

You seem to have good intuition about what looks good on you. I’ve never really had that intuition for myself. That is why knowing my kibbe is valuable to me, because now I don’t wear things that look awkward, nor buy things I’ll never wear.

Hi Jenn! You should look into the Japanese Skeletal Type System. I think you are the textbook example of a Straight type. Coincidentally, a lot of your style preferences follow the recommandations for this type. I like the flexibility the system gives towards choosing your own aesthetic, but adapting it to your morphology. EDIT: Nevermind, I just remembered you have a video on the topic. :P As for this video, I (still) think you are a Flamboyant Natural. Structure contradicts your beauty, because your body lines and face lines are of the more open, stronger, blunter type. (And while I love contrast between personal features and clothing, Kibbe isn't about that.) So I don't see FG and DC lines are your best in the Kibbe sense. The outfits are made of pieces that already suit you, so nothing is bad and some outfit are very cute, but you shine more in FN lines (again in the Kibbe sense). This brings me to my second part of my analysis: all the SN outfits you have shown are more suitable for FN types than for SN types. SN Outfit # 1: Even with the shirt tied around the waist, because it is still open, we see most of the narrow calf lenght dress whick still emphasizes your vertical. You don't to have a unbroken silhouette from neck to ankles to emphasis it. And because the black of the shirt is contrasting on the sides with the white of the dress, the dress looks even narrower and thus longer. And the way you tied up the shirt barely emphasis the waist, and it isn't enough even by SN standards. SN Outfit # 2: The belt separates the outfit 1:2 with the bottom part being longer. As in your video about youthful and mature faces, the fact that the bottom part that is longer tricks our eyes to make it seems the silouette is longer. Also, the watercolor motif at the bottom of the dress both brings the eye higher (by value contrast) and lower (still by value contrast as the blue is paler that the brown/grey part) and thus lenghten your silhouette. And (same problem as with SN outfit # 1) the belt is too thin (or too barely visible) and too loosely buckled to bring much waist emphasis or break the vertical significantly. Overall, for the pants outfits: Again, long solid-coloured high-waisted pants gives vertical to your outfits automatically. The pin tuck details and the straight fit of your dark blue pants contribute to this effect, and the slightly contracting sideseams of your jeans do too. And when you tuck your t-shirt in, it is the same effect as for tying your shirt or belting your dress from the same exact reason: it is done too loosely even by SN standards. (The white pants with the tigher waistband had potential though.) (Sorry if I get any detail wrong, I wasn't the most attentive during the latter part of the video.) Moreover combined with all of these details, the fabric of the clothing you use is not soft enough for a SN type. Or at least, not soft enough to outdo the other factors. Some FNs like their outfit to have less looseness and more waist emphasis than others, but it doesn't necessarily mean they are not dressing in their lines. Anyway, love your videos as always; they make me think a lot (productively) about my style. I'm over Kibbe now for my own style, but I love your brain too much to pass on the video. PS: English is not my first language.

I'll swim against the currents here and I'll say I think you got it right since the beginning. Vertical is having literal elongation (being tall) or having a prolonged straight line through the body, which is why short people aren't automatically disqualified from vertical-dominant IDs. It's clearly not too common but it can happen and I think you might be the perfect example of that! I also think width appears to be very clear on you. Besides all of that, the common problem with Kibbe's system and its discourse on youtube/tiktok is that people tend to reduce it to body parts and to trying the outdated clothing recommendations that were made for the 80s when it's pretty much an essence-based system too. Flamboyant Gamines have a playful sassiness to them that doesn't match the laid-back straight-to-the-point vibe that we see on your videos (and the same goes with Soft Naturals and their sensual girl-next-door type of beauty they emanate). I think that you match better with FN in most aspects and not only with the way clothes look on you Also for anyone who might see this (if someone does lol): Putting belts or emphasizing our waist is not something reserved to yin types, every type can do it and every type can look great with it