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Editor’s Note
**Editor’s Note:** Something I’ve noticed after years of watching women work through this system: the types that generate the most arguments in the comments — Soft Dramatic and Theatrical Romantic, almost always — aren’t necessarily the hardest to *understand*, they’re the hardest to *accept*. There’s a quiet resistance that happens when a typing doesn’t match how someone sees herself, or how she wants to be seen. Kibbe himself has said the system isn’t about body shape at all, yet that’s almost always the first place people go. Which makes me wonder — when you’re drawn to a particular type, are you actually seeing your lines, or are you seeing the woman you’d like to dress as?
Okay so I’ve been down a Kibbe rabbit hole for *weeks* and this finally made everything click. I’m in Boston and literally pulled out a blazer I’d given up on after reading this — turns out I was just styling it wrong for my lines. My one takeaway is to stop fighting my natural silhouette and work *with* it instead of against it. Quick question though: do you think someone can be genuinely between two types, or is that usually just resistance to accepting your actual type lol?