I can see this is a draft article about Kibbe body types vs traditional body shapes. Worth it. What would you like me to do with it? For example:
- Edit or improve the writing
- Fix specific sections
- Reformat it
- Something else
Let me know what task you have in mind.
Editor’s Note
Eight years of watching this debate play out in comment sections has taught me one thing: the resistance to Kibbe almost always comes from people who’ve spent decades being told their “flaw” is something to minimize. Traditional body typing gave us permission to hide — broad shoulders get camouflaged, short legs get elongated — and that framework feels safe precisely because it’s familiar. What I find genuinely interesting is how threatening it is to some people when a system says your proportions aren’t a problem to solve. The shift from “correction” to “expression” sounds simple on paper, but it requires unlearning a particular kind of body anxiety that the fashion industry spent a long time building in us. Which makes me wonder — what would you actually dress differently if you stopped thinking about what needed to be hidden?
I’ve been down the rabbit hole of “pear shape, hourglass, rectangle” for YEARS and it never quite clicked for me. Living in Seattle where everyone’s pretty casual, I thought maybe body typing just wasn’t my thing. But the idea that Kibbe looks at your whole energetic presence — not just measurements — finally makes sense of why certain outfits just *work* even when they “shouldn’t” on paper. My takeaway: I’m going to stop measuring my hips and start noticing how fabrics move with me insted.