Kibbe and Trends: Any ID can wear any piece of clothing! 

David Kibbe said to Vox that he was pushed by editors to be more assertive in his advice. He wanted to be more fluid, while they wanted him to "box" women. This explained to me the misconceptions to me.

I love this not because I want to wear trends but because it’s what is available in the stores (or in my pre-Kibbe closet) and we need to understand how to make it work. I have a soft spot for romantic girly tops and I’d love to understand how to wear the ones I have as a dramatic classic.

Loved this video! I would love for you to do this with the grunge style/rock and roll. I’ve always been part of that scene and as a young person whose body wasn’t developed yet..It worked so well. Now that Im more developed I think I’m more of a Romantic trying to do the classic rock and roll with a natural essence. Idk how well that’s working. It has been difficult to transition my wardrobe from teenager to adult.

I LOVE THIS!!! As a teenager that's into Kibbe, this is amazing, I'm a Romantic (reconsidering to TR) with ingenue essence, but I'm so confused bc I love more of a street/ androgynous style and all of the suggestions are feminine and cute (which I agree that suit me better, but, oh well) I'll love more videos like this! That help you accommodate the "contrary" lines to you ID. Thank you! ☆☆☆

This might be one of my favorite Gabrielle videos! It was a lightbulb moment for me! So now, I can go back to my closet, get dressed and say, "Now...make it Soft Natural!". It won't work for everything I own, but it will help with a lot of my "almost there" choices. Thank you!

I love the tips for continuing to use those “almost” clothes in the closet. Basic tailoring changes and you look so much better. The most expensive tailoring won’t get you anywhere if you tailor it for a different body type.

Being an ethereal essence is so confusing because of all those dominant traits you mention!! There is a soft elongated curve. There is curve AND length. And if you have natural in your blend you must also accommodate for some width. Very eye-opening. Thank you so much Gabby!!

Came here from your website and I'm all in. Incredible info, easy to understand, well communicated - you deserve all the praise!

This video was sooo good and so different than someone just sitting there and telling you, you were SHOWING US how to dress different lines on different IDs and it made so many things so much clearer

I want to see grunge on for a romantic tbh cuz that's the aesthetic I want

This is so true. I had a pair of pants that I wanted to love but they just didn’t look right. I discovered Kibbe and (may be) FN, and when I paired the right top with them, suddenly they became my favorite pants. Changing up the lines made all the difference to a pair of pants I desperately wanted to wear.

extremely helpful!! 😁loved these examples! So good to see that any ID can wear any trend/ any piece and that it is more about the overall look& vibe created! 🔥 This way I can keep all my fave pieces and just style them differently! thanks!

I really like how you explain things. I'm a soft classic,but I always gravitate to naturals

You are truely a gem! What a great video idea and so well executed! I wanted to ad something: In the first example, you suggest romantics should go shorter with the hemlines than gamines. From my point of view the opposite would make sense, since gamines are shorter than romantics, so, therefor this should be mirrored in their clothing lines. Sometimes I see romantics in mini dresses or skirts and it can look a bit compromising, since they tend to be lushious/ voluptios. It looks like they have chosen a clothing piece too small to fit their curves. In my eyes they are better suited with hemlines ending a few inches under their fingertips, keeping in mind this is still considered a "short" hemline. Gamines on the other hand, can cary miniskirts very well, without looking trashy or too sexy. It looks youthful and girly on them, fits their personality. If you're a true gamine, it looks trendy, if you're a soft gamine, it looks cheeky, if you're a flamboyant gamine it can be red as bold or androgenous. Of corse nothing is canceld for anyone. I myself am a dramatic classic and 1,75m tall, so quite tall. Midlength hemlines really look great on my, but sometimes I like to make a shorter or longer skirt work for me:)

Omg! I would love if you did this style of video for street style/sporty style! I'm a soft classic and it feels like everything is overkill

I really love this video. I always feel like there are a lot of things I can't wear because I'm a soft dramatic, with really wide hips. I would love to see you style mom jeans and low rise pants/shorts/skirts for all the bod types

Another lovely video. I really appreciate the time you take to make these videos - I can only imagine how much time it takes to dress all the outfits, while also filming. Thank you for all the infos you are sharing with us!

That was an awesome démonstration !!! Makes the IDs much more understandable. I'd love to see a similar video about how to express the essences through the IDs, in particular Ethereal essence.

This was so helpful. Excellent video!❤

I just love your personality 😂👌🏻 Thanks for making these videos!

This was very well explained and well exemplified and damn you SERVED those dramatic looks I must say!! Just started my kibbe journey but very quickly identified as a soft classic. The simplistic and more or less classic styles I tend to gravitate towards with a lot of pieces make a ton of sense within this context and yet I also really dislike the softness or preppiness the soft classic style can exude. I love street style and athleisure out of day to day practicality for my work and also it's just easy lol but yeah I'd love to see some of the more edgy types of looks for all types especially for us softies, and also ways to elevate or contrast our kibbe types in bold ways that still work. That may be a tall order lol but hopefully you'll consider :)

Favourite outfit for me was the Classic jeans with the black oversized blazer and t-shirt. So basic but flattering and tasteful. And I happen to have all of these pieces. Yes, please, do more of these. Trends to try: gingham, straight jeans, very peri (Pantone's colour of the year). Also, how to incorporate Romantic into the other ID's and Dramatic into the other ID's.

Thanks i really needed this video!!! That is why it's hard to find out our body Kibbe ID through clothes that look good on us, cause actual all clothes have the potential to look absolutely flattering on a number of body types!

This video is really good! Thank you!

Super vid 🎉🎉🎉Love to See more for dramatic Classic - esp. I still struggle with the dramatic in this id

Could you do a video on how to look trendy for more yang types? Or "how to wear gamine as a dramatic", "romantic as a classic" ect thanks!

This is fantastic, best for me of your videos so far. Now I see me being classic, always symmetrical, long neck, neat healthy body, polished however done, whatever genre, in minis when that was on in the 60’s with snakeskin coat over it. ( narrow so some verticality, long legs) but big eyes and love shoes..those with bows and ankle straps! the romantic shoes are natural for me, though I have loafers, vivobarefoot barefoot and gobis boots. And the merrell barefoot vapour glove 3 minimalist runners. Classic but never tight. Just getting an inkling based on this. Realised that indeed a round disc clip on earring is best, or curved around lobe, small round rings, plus just bought some 1950 lovely little cultured pearl screw ons.Thank you. Pulled out an 3bay camel hair blazer with padded shoulders, yes it’s wearable after all, good. Inspiring, thank you.

Gabby, your content is extremely helpful and absolutely the best among any Kibbe-centric content creators out there. You are well-spoken and give such illustrative and practical examples. Okay #fangirling over… I am commenting to suggest a video like this one but with an everyday casual outfit. Like a “work from home outfits” for the body types… I’m talking athleisure-level casual. I think it would attract so many people who are only just starting to play with and learn fashion. Everyone’s been in athleisure since 2020 so our wardrobes can accommodate this to start playing around immediately without shopping. I am a (suspected) soft classic + light summer, so I’ve been able to see a surprisingly striking difference it makes just to play around with variables in a plain white tee such as tone, weight, fabric, construction etc. Madness! Anyway keep it up girl.

Loved this video

Love, love, love it!!! Thanks a lot!!!

Thank You for the video! Loved the concept! I would love grunge look for Soft Natural. I'm a newbie with Kibbe and for me, only now I'm starting to understand, why fully grunge isn't working for me. Though, for shoes, I only wear heavy ones - would love to keep it that way, hehe.

Great video! Good advice.

Would be interesting for you to do soft girl/ ballerina core - as you really don’t hear much that dramatics and FNs can do it

it really all does make sense. im a rather tall (178cm/ 5'10ft) SD with a romantic/gamine essence and i can wear shorter hemlines and horizontal breaks very very well. BUT only when i wear some kind of tights or leggins underneath, otherwise i look nice but a liiiittle off. that migtht be because wearing colourful legs and a colourful jacket keeps my vertical line in tact, which gives me enough stability in my longness so that i can truly deliver crazy prints and patterns on short dresses and skirts. that is soooo fascinating!!!

Love this! 👏💕

I loved this! Always trying to figure out how to wear different styles as a Soft Classic who doesn't really care for elegance and prefers gamine or dramatic styles. As a queer person I would love one with each of the body types that focuses on Butch/Tomboy styling as a woman, especially everyone with romantic lines.

Wow what a great video!! Really interesting🤓🤓💓 I’d love to see more of these kind of videos. Personally I struggle most with kibbes hair recommendations😵‍💫 I always wanted to be a natural but I am romantic😡😅😅

I'm not sure how I understood all that, but i did and it was really helpful!

Great content!

Also you’re great at modeling:)

This is brilliant.

I know, this may be quite a difficult topic, but ... cut you show how to make vintage styling apropriate for the body types? I'm pretty good with styling, but I often border looking costumy (I like extravagant things), even though I can pull a lot off at the same time. I'm a dramatic classic and like different things from different eras. I think especially the 40s look suits my bodytype, but I love all the decades for different reasons. Maby somebody else would be interested?

Great video, thank you. I would love to see one on rock chick/road trip/Americana/Boho influence. I have no idea how to do that as a soft classic rock chick hippy!! 🤔😬🤣

Subscribed!

What about wedding guest evening outfits?I always end up feeling matronly...

yeah its annoying that kibbie got rid if pure types because i think that would mane it more confusing for people. My mother and sister are gamines i woukdnt say FG and definitely not SG. I have always been good with my style but im quite an analytical person so these styling systems really grabbed my ibterest , especially kibbie. Although i didnt particularly need gelp personally , kibbie started out as an interest but it ended up gelping me oyt to be able to understand why what works works and why what diesnt wirk doesnt which allowed me to try new shapes ,in new ways and have a clearer trained eye on what i wear . Kibbie also opened up the door to self love , i hated how short i am , i hated my curves, my small 30 b/c breasts and i also felt i needed to wear heels to feel confident. Kibbie changed all of that, i now quite like all of those features and naybe i might love all those features because they make me , me and i would just hate to look like everyone else . Kibbie has really stepped up my game and i love kibbie for that ❤️ im SG but i dont religiously follow the lines and i think of myself as being more inbetween SG and TR really because i dont have the boxy shoulders and i have alot of delicate TR features in my face , torso, the narrowness to my legs and my hands and shoulders . The SG comes out through my legs , hips and feat and the fact i dont have double curve . This is why i look bad in boxy shapes and A line skirts that are always recommended for SG.

This was really well done!!

Can you do a video about pure naturals?

I really wish we could get 2024 part 2 of this video!

I'm a theatric romantic. I love the classic style & the romantic style.. What group do i fall under? What kind of outfits would suit me?

How would you recommend styling fairy grunge/y2k for a pure dramatic? I don't like stiff fabrics or sharp lines so I dunno how to implement it into my style

Where can we find books by kibble and Kitchener ?

I think I’m on the cusp of 3 types! I have width and curve but I’m so petite and curvy that I can’t be firmly in the SN category. I’m not narrow enough to be a SG even though I can pull off those lines, my head is smaller in comparison to my shoulders. I’m not super doll like. I have a very muscular body (genetics) plus I work out but I’m a little overweight. I’d say I look like JLo and Salma Hayek had a baby and it’s legs were stumpy AF. TR is ok but too intricate for me. Should I just follow all 3?

Something that bugs me a bit is, Im a soft dramatic and it seems that short skirts are never suggested. But I have amazing legs and want to show them off! I cant be the only dramatic with good legs, so what is up with that?

You are so flamboyant natural - in case you didn't know😅

Hi, I love love those boots you recommend for the naturals, where did you get them?

I think I’m a natural (I’m still in between a N or FG) I love the preppy/ivy look… I personally still love the polished classic/tailored but because is so constricting I keep an open collar with shirts. I don’t go go for cropped, just normal length for blazer and long for coats. Now the question is. Should I start wearing more oversized? I’ve always been more of a Blair than a Serena. Help.

Could it be possible to make any color work as well, even if it’s not in your palette? I’m a clear winter but I just love this one warm toned mustard colored shirt I have! Do I need to toss it or can I make it work somehow 😢

gamine was my favorite

When you do soft dramatics as just dramatics the look is no longer right for me as a soft dramatic because too much sharpness. Perfect for a straight dramatic but the softs miss out. I feel.

Ugh, the more videos I watch on this topic, the more confused I get. I feel like I'm some kind of classic but I'm too tall at 5'9. I look so dumpy in long dresses, look bigger if I don't wear clothes that are fitted or tailored and I gain weight everywhere equally except my face which obviously gets fatter but it doesn't look fat if you see it separately. My shoulders, bust and waist are all the same measurements and my waist is 11in smaller which makes me an hourglass but I don't look like one.

Wait. Does bodycon stand for „body conscious”?!

That's why I never understood anything that he said for the lines 😂😂😂 2:25

I still don’t understand what are “lines,” where to look for them, and what clothes match what lines lol 😆

i want more _____ Gabby

Are u wearing your little sister's green shirt 😂

I appreciate your advice. But gurl, wtf is up with your online style? That top is straining itself at the buttons. It needs to be given to someone else, or made into potholders. Seriously. Makes me feel like I'm taking advice about health from a three pack a day smoker.