Within the Kibbe system, there are five main body types: Dramatics, Naturals, Classics, Gamines, and Romantics, with variations of each (Soft, Flamboyant, Dramatic, Theatrical).

A Soft Dramatic woman (tall and curvy) is dressed in an ill-fitting draped dress that obscures rather than enhances her silhouette, muting the dramatic, high-glamour lines Kibbe prescribes for the ...

David Kibbe, an image consultant who got his start in the 1980s, has watched his body-typing system take off with a new, digitally native audience.

THE KIBBE TEST is a body type system devised in the 1980s to help women choose clothes that flatter their figures. Here's how to find out what YOUR Kibbe body type is.

Are you a soft dramatic or a theatrical romantic? For those who manage to decode the Kibbe system, your image type can become a sort of signifier in Kibbe-adjacent online spaces, as a means to ...

What are the 13 Kibbe body type categories? Dramatic: Characterized by a long vertical line, being tall and angular and having a bony structure. Soft Dramatic: A blended type with a long vertical line ...

He outlined five Kibbe ‘type families’ in the book: Dramatic, Natural, Classic, Gamine, and Romantic. Within these families are 13 more detailed sub-categories, from Flamboyant Natural to ...

So is your essence yin or yang? Are you a soft dramatic or theatrical romantic? And do you have a strong vertical line? If this sounds like gibberish, that’s because you’re not yet familiar ...