Sloped Shoulders and Kibbe: Which Body Types Have Them?

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Editor’s Note

Eight years of reading comments on shoulder-related posts has taught me one thing: the women most convinced they have sloped shoulders often don’t — they have *narrow* shoulders, which reads differently on the body and maps to a completely different set of Kibbe recommendations. Slope is about the angle of the shoulder line relative to the neck; width is about how far that line extends. Conflating the two is probably the single most common source of mistyping I see, and it sends people chasing accommodations that work against their actual lines rather than with them. Before you anchor your entire Kibbe identity to this one feature, have you ever had someone else assess your shoulders on your behalf, rather than relying on your own mirror read?

1 thought on “Sloped Shoulders and Kibbe: Which Body Types Have Them?

  1. I’ve been trying to figure out my Kibbe type for months and the shoulder thing finally clicked for me reading this! I’m in Seattle where everyone wears layers constantly and I always thought my sloped shoulders just looked “wrong” in structured jackets — but now I get why. My takeaway is to stop fighting it with shoulder pads and lean into softer, draped necklines instead. Quick question though — do you think slope matters more than width when your typing yourself, or is it kind of both together?

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