I think Nelly is a great example of how we can adapt our styles to accommodate our weight gains. She looked amazing back then and now she's incredible!

She gained more weight now and she was pretty underweight when people typed her before so maybe it's so no longer the same ?

A bit of background: I started trying to figure out my Kibbe type around 2022. In the very first quiz I ever took, I got Dramatic Classic.

Then I started looking into the system more deeply. I’m 5’2”, and at the time, most people noticed my short height and lack of obvious Romantic curves and immediately suggested Flamboyant Gamine. For the next year, I thought I was either FG or SG, although I kept feeling that something wasn’t quite working.

Then the new book came out! 🔥

After completing all the quizzes and exercises in the book, I still hadn’t fully figured out my type. The first thing that helped me was realizing that I have Vertical. Why? When I looked at my photo, I noticed that my eyes travelled straight from top to bottom rather than moving in a curved direction. Okay, some progress!

The next step was figuring out my accommodations. I took the type of photo recommended in the book and traced my outline, imagining a slightly weighted piece of chiffon falling straight down from my shoulders.

What helped me most was realizing that the stripes on each type’s outline show where the line begins to behave differently. And then it clicked! I quickly realized that I’m actually a Dramatic Classic, just as I had thought at the very beginning.

Please share your own Kibbe experience and how you eventually settled on your type! ❤️

Hopefully this makes sense lol.

I'm self typed as FG, maybe SG, but definitely gamine. I wear exclusively high waisted pants as I need to emphasise my waistline. But I've also noticed that tops and t-shirts look better on me when they're not just flat fabric covering the whole chest. E.g., with horizontal text above the bust, suspenders, or an interesting neckline. In this photo I posed to make the top look better, but the shape is really not that flattering.

I really don't suit tops that have a standard scoop neckline. It feels like it makes me look wide in that area even though my waist and upper torso are small compared to the rest of my body.

Is this just because I need to tailor to the upper torso?

Drop your fav style inspirations please! Struggling over here lol

I personally love Sabrina!

My natural waist is super high, I always feel like bottoms are too low even when high waisted... I need shorts to hike but I seldom like how they look on me. How are those? I work with SN (I'm 5'4/163cm).