This Kibbe chap...

[MrTwatchester]

Am I alone in thinking he's just a creep?

I stumbled across his "system" somewhere - here or Pinterest probably, and went down a rabbit hole of staring at my hands and working out the angle of my neckline or whatever, before suddenly thinking, "what the fuck is this?"

I think we have enough obsessive objectification going on without making it as granular as the length of our bloody fingers. It's all very Pygmalion. A male gaze focus on women looking sexy, rather than confident or stylish.

He comes across as a massive perv to me.

Yeah, I think you may be right. I had a bit of a look into it, because I'm into colour analysis.

From a distance, Kibbe looks quite sensible, like it's an actual system, and I agree that, clearly, one's body/face shape does affect which sorts of clothes look coherent and nice to a viewer, but then when you try to navigate said system for yourself, it collapses. It's just a lot of relative adjectives like 'more angular', or 'a little smoother' matched apparently randomly with dozens of images of female body parts. Then you get the further smooshing of everything into everything else when you start to look at actual items of clothes!

I risk looking like a brick shithouse in stripes and ditzy flowers make me blurry and drab. My sister looks good in both. I reckon people who can't instinctively tell if they are flattered by rounded rather than pointed things, say, probably shouldn't get into the chasm of literal navel-gazing that Kibbe self-analysis requires, and anyone who can, already can!

I do think an actual person with a good eye, preferably someone with you in person while you try shit on, is a brilliant sounding board, but sitting by yourself with a laptop measuring your fingers and toes is not going to give helpful answers.

Yes, obviously there are all shapes and sizes of frame, and what you wear can look better or worse - which is, of course, entirely relative anyway, depending on what you value in clothes and / or fashion.

What Kibbe does is encourage obsessive analysis of women’s bodies, down to ludicrous details, set against his idea of what makes women attractive. His “types” are very sexualised.

Don’t think we need it.

Oh...I'm doing a course now where one module of it is Kibbe body type. We're supposed to send all our measurements and pictures in bikini/underwear and in loads of outfits (also hands/feet, etc) and they'll let us know our body type. It's not the only reason I'm doing the course but I'm curious to see what comes up