- When we think of body types, many of us think of the traditional method that takes into account
our hip measurements, our waist measurements
and our bust measurements and then those are supposed
to be used to identify one of I think five different body types, and then give us dressing tips
based on those unique types, but what about the rest of our bodies? What about our facial features? Things like our prominent cheek
bones or a prominent chin? Or our height? Or the the proportion of our
head to the rest of our bodies? All of these things all come
together to make us uniquely us and the traditional body typing methods can be a little limiting. So I recently came across
something called the Kibbe Method, and I think it's so fascinating, so I want to share it
with you in today's video. I'm gonna go over what it is, how you can use it to identify
what you are in this method and how that can be
helping for getting dressed and maybe identifying things that you like and things that you don't
like about your wardrobe. So let's get started. (slow jazz music) Stylist David Kibbe
believed that all of us are a mix of yin, or feminine
and soft features and yang, masculine and sharp features and figuring out how much of each of these we have gives us one
of five main body types and then 13 subtypes. So Kibbe believed that there
were five main body types ranging from all yin to all yang and these are dramatic,
natural, classic, gamine and romantic and then these five types can flow slightly into one type before it and then immediately after it
and that gives us 13 subtypes. So those 13 are dramatic, soft
dramatic, flamboyant natural, natural, soft natural,
dramatic classic, classic, soft classic, flamboyant
gamine, gamine, soft gamine, theatrical romantic and romantic. So to figure out which type you are, I recommend taking the quiz. I took it a couple of times 'cause it's kind of confusing at first but I'll link it down below for you and then start looking
up some of the people that identify with those body types. There are so many great discussion boards, I'll link some good ones down below. Then also celebrities
that have been identified as soft romantic, classic,
et cetera, et cetera. And pinpointing which
of those kind of look the most like you in your proportions can be really helpful
in retaking the test. So for example, if I look at myself, I have a slightly rounded face
but I have high cheeks bones and not too much drama going on, I also have slightly rounded shoulders and I'm not tall and I'm not too petite. I'm kind of petite and then based on these and the other characteristics in the quiz, I think that I'm soft classic. And this becomes really evident when I see myself in
really structured pieces. I like them, obviously I still wear them. I wear things that aren't
supposed to be worn by my body type, but it explains why I really gravitate towards things with slightly billowy sleeves or no collar like I'm wearing today and why I really feel
at home in those pieces. And what I really like
about this typing system is that it helps you almost
find the tools necessary to identify maybe why you've
always been drawn to something and why you really haven't
been drawn to something else, so it helps give a little
bit of justification. Maybe you really don't like how you look in a structured white button down and this quiz can shed some light on that. So why is this information helpful and how can it help you
enhance your personal style and help you understand more
about your personal tastes? Well, like anything designed
to standardize our bodies and kind of fit us into boxes, it definitely has limitations
and it's not perfect and I don't think that it
should be used to validate what you should and should not wear. This is not supposed to
give you a set of rules that you have to live by. I completely disagree with that mentality. I think you should always
what you want when you want and always try to find pieces that make you feel amazing
and then wear those even if you're the only
person that likes them. But I do think that a tool
like this can be helpful in identifying similarities between pieces that you already love and
pieces that you don't. So I know personally when I
took the test a couple times 'cause I had to work
through it a few times to really try to pinpoint what
was correct and what wasn't, I started to realize
that most of the pieces that I've been drawn to over the years are all very similar to what's recommended for my personal body type. Now, that doesn't mean
that I don't have pieces that aren't recommended, I definitely do, but I am gravitating
more towards those things 'cause they just feel in
synergy with me, I guess. They just work and I really like them and I think that that's so cool and I think that that's something that can save you a lot of time so I think this can be a very helpful test if you've been a little bit
lost in wardrobe curation, maybe you're trying to find your personal individual
unique wardrobe basics and you keep going down the wrong path because you're following
recommendations from someone that you respect and like but
they're so different than you. This can be helpful. I also love that this
system seems to celebrate what makes us unique and our
own individual body types, rather than giving us tools
to camouflage things about us in order to make us all
look like one body type. It really celebrates
the difference, it seems and I really like that. I think that's what makes
personal style so fun, that we're all so different and we should always bring
that uniqueness to the table when getting dressed because
that's what personal style should be in my opinion. It should be a way to express yourself and really allow you to stand out in a way that's just perfectly you. So ignore what everyone
else tells you to wear and what looks good on you,
what doesn't look good on you and instead, find pieces
that make you feel great and that comes with a whole set of tools that are at our disposal
and I think this one when used correctly can do that for you. If you'd like to see
more videos like this, featuring my top tips
for doing more with less, I would love to have you subscribe. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in my next one. Have a great day. (slow jazz music)
