Thanks so much for sharing! It truly is a revelation. Have you watched my video on Kibbe and Personality? It has exactly what you're describing--different elegant looks on different body types, and then I swap them from one body type to another to see that one look that was elegant on Selena Gomez (soft natural), just looked sloppy on Nina Dobrev (dramatic classic), and other examples too!

@@merriamstyleOh, yes, I watch all your videos :) You explain things so clearly and intuitively! Especially color analysis (another former source of frustration for me as a slightly-cool-of-neutral olive). But Kibbe is really a breath of fresh air after the traditional pear-shape, apple-shape, hide-your-flaws approach we've all been raised on. It shows that trying to "counteract" or "neutralize" your natural appearance is just the wrong way to go.

Thank you! And agreed!!

😂that's hilarious. Your poor sister.

@@godslaya4563 She just said that she looked like a princess, are you blind?

That's so cute

@@moontears3887 Sounds like it wasn't the look she was going for though. You need to calm down.

Oh that is so interesting! I find gamines can have the most 'fun' and do crazy things and get away with it - even in a more conservative workplace, meanwhile Classic over here if she doesn't do her hair for one day she looks dreadful. 🤦

To piggyback on this, I'd like to also see more masculine/tomboy looks for the body types :)

@@ajujuadoidoi that would be great

yes , could be different videos specific feminine could be vague but maybe it's just me. like "sexy" " soft" "cute" looks for body types and yes also "Tomboy" "Masculine" "Androgynous" looks for different body type would be nice.

Yes please!!!

@J .S ?

Yess please

YES

aaahhhhh this is amazing

Exactly.

@J .S You can't say that about Gamines anymore. www.truth-is-beauty.com/blog/its-a-good-time-to-be-gamine

J .S have u walked into a forever 21 lately ? bunch of gamine shapes (vintage inspired)

@kshiftkometh gamine has been in for at least 5 years!

S H In the past I would dress like a gamine thinking my face suited but my body was always too statuesque and wide for it. My body is just like Angelina and Meghan where we are short waisted with a wide torso and fawn-like legs. Thankfully I try to look for draped loose styles now in ditsy prints or floral for that French chic clothing style. My lines are complimented much better.

shouldn't classic suit all body types or at least not damage the look? I always tend to classic look even though I seem to fit dramatic or soft dramatic description.

@@julijakeit classic lines definitely looks decent on any body type, not the best nor worst but is a different body type wears them it brings out their own lines. Let's say a Romantic wear classic lines, it being out their rounded bones and sometimes look curvier with them compared to a classic.

@@julijakeit not really. I'm a natural and wearing classic, symmetric styles makes me look very 'trying too hard to be preppy' if that makes sense.

@Tangerine Sky333 She seems to break the rules already quite a bit. In the more casual events she looks a lot better.

Yes I think it’s what people expect Meghan to wear now but it’s the natural style that suits her.

@@ChauntelleM And I see a lot of people insulting her compared to Kate because Meghan looks more messy in stiffer fabrics. I just wish that she could wear more flowy looser fabrics.

Her wedding dress was hideous, poor thing.

I think what makes classic interesting is that you can take one detail from another type and style it with classic clothes, and you'll instantly have the effect you want. My DC friend can look really badass just by wearing ripped jeans with the rest of her outfit being relatively plain and classic, while if I try that approach as a TR my softness comes through too much. I'd have to do a very different approach to get that effect. That one element is enough to make her outfit look really interesting without looking out of place, which I think is the power of the classics

Just as thehalfbloodserb said! If you're a dramatic classic, I don't have a video specifically, but I'd highly recommend that you watch my video on soft classics because I talk a lot about what halfblood was describing. And also you could watch are classics boring and gamines fun, where it's primarily Dramatic Classic vs Flamboyant Gamine!

thehalfbloodserb Yes, i remember Merriam talking about that. I am just very bad at styling so it’s taking me a while to figure it out 😊

Merriam Style I am pretty sure I am soft classic (my puffy cheeks don’t lie😂) I have to watch those again Merriam, I am such a slow learner😩

there's a youtube channel called stealthespotlight pretty sure the girl on there is a classic. You should check out all the crazy looks she can pull off.

Ba bablacksheep ha ha i have heard that too! “you look good in anything” but they have no idea how carefully you select your clothing or all the styles you have to say no to

(Would you consider Sophia Myles a Soft Classic?)

I'm not Merriam but if you're interested I think that if you look at Angelina Jolie when she was young and before extreme weight loss she has lots of softer features and she also has a slightly shorter vertical line so I think she's SN. Meghan I don't know enough about but she seems neither soft at a normal weight nor have more Drama and a longer vertical line like a FN so Natural fits her the best out of those three imo :)

this is so sweet omg

Periwinkleeyes70 She’s also had surgeries to her face over the years and also dramatic weight loss from possibly stress and allegedly substance abuse.

Dressing your truth? :)

@Tangerine Sky333 that is Amazing! Do you feel that having the artistic licence colours, kibbe body type and Dressing your truth is a perfectly complete system when you put them all together? It's been game changing! That's totally right! My mother who is a type 1/4 landed smack bang on soft gamine! And if you know Aly Art, she is also a type 1 from my own observation and she is also a soft gamine! Makes perfect sense that a type 1 would be gamine since the type 1 energy is a random mixture (and some type ones feel like they are a mixture of the energy types) and gamine is a random mixture of the other body types!! Sorry for the long response. I am so excited that somebody else knows dyt kibbe and Merriam :) I am trying to introduce Merriam and the kibbe body system to the Dressing your truth world. I am a type 4/2 energy type, and in kibbe, I am a theatrical romantic. 😊

@@archeraimsaarrow3864 nah it did not work me I think it's very limited I was talking about john kitchen psc look it up

@@lunamuna5305Cool just subscribed.

@Tangerine Sky333 Yeah I have to agree it can be limiting. I'm so happy I can stretch out and have more freedom with Merriam and kibbe and well now I'm checking out john kitchener. I think Carol is on to it for sure tho. Even tho I am a type 4 I see there being so many possibilities in the world of style. I thought it was very validating to Carols system however when I found out that my artistic color pallete was cool and delicate. The colours are like a perfect type 4/2 pallete. Like completely catered to that particular type blend that I am. So I see my type 4/2 coming up in my skin. Then my kibbe type, theatrical romantic, is a perfect blend between dramatic (which I'd consider to be type 4) and romantic, type 2. Which further suggests 4/2 for me. So the energy type 4/2 is showing through my bones and flesh. Then in dressing your truth my 4/2 comes out through my face in facial profiling. I was just taken back a little. I don't know if it works the same for everyone tho. Carol has broken her rules by wearing navy. She does incorporate different colours that are not type 3 into her style. So I feel like when the time is right she will go into that and share it with the dyt. I really just think her heart is set on helping people own who they are by recognizing it, healing it and honouring it.

Please, what is kibbe?

@@uberhaute_naturalz84 David Kibbe created the body type system this woman is using in the video. Search up "David Kibbe body types" and look at Merriam Style's page further.

It's not that the blonde one looks "bad" in the dress, it just that she looks more severe because the soft lines of the dress are in contrast with her sharper bones, and in sharper lines she looks softer. Which is not perse bad, just leaves a certain impression

I also didn't like the dress on the brunette as much as I did on the blonde, but then again I have found sharper bones and faces and skinnier bodies more attractive my whole life. Probably cause I'm the opposite of that, the only thing I have sharp on me is my chin 😁 What I am trying to say is that "bad" is not the best adjective here, it's just what looks more harmonic to one's eye, so there are going to be differences in impressions

@@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195 I think the brunette doesn't look o put together overall. Like she needs more stuff and her hair is in the way. Also, the dress looks too long for her.

Why you Instagrammer or follower? 🤭

@@rahnumajahanteethi3329 both but you should probably define your terms🤪

I've heard that Sandra is a Natural type and that Anne Hathaway is a Classic type.

@@silverroxen2954 Thanks! Do you know what kind of Classic is Anne Hathaway?

no offense but I think you got some wrong here.

That’s quite possible, I’m in no way knowledgeable in this subject. Can you please clarify which ones?

Adriana lima, she may have some D in her facial features (most models do) but her bones are mainly natural and dramatic, so way too much yang for a TR. Alexandra Dadarrio, same thing. Soft dramatic or soft natural maybe.

Gitte Van de velde well I had always wondered why Adriana and Alexandra were listed as romantics on certain online forums.. thanks for the clarification. I do agree with you on this. They have a lot of D in their faces but their skeletons are primarily yang, although in some pictures Adriana appears to have a short vertical line and answer D limbs, hands and feet. What are your thoughts, Merriam?

I have that same question.

Diana Prince yess please

To me, a soft classic looks more aristocratic, elegant, and balanced whereas theatrical romantics are more like slightly sharper, mini-Marilyn Monroe’s. We’re very small dainty, rounded women. I’m a TR myself that’s why it’s easier to distinguish. I think I get Dramatic classics and TRs mixed because Megan Fox and Nina Dobrev sometimes wear theatrical romantic inspired looks and I think it looks good on them.

kat x I agree that Nina Dobrev often sports TR looks, especially in her days in the Vampire Diaries. So from my understanding now TR would be overall smaller and less proportionate than SC, with smaller hands and facial features. Is Olivia Culpo a TR then in your opinion? It would be interesting to know

What is 6 Es, 4 Bs, 3 Cs, 2 Ds, 1 A?

Kellie Gallagher I would guess she’s a natural, maybe even a flamboyant natural

That’s what I was thinking based on the description on her best style. Thanks 😊

What exactly constitutes "modest" for you? Maybe you could try dresses or tunics cut on the bias, traditionally made from flowy materials like chiffon, voile, linen, velvet and charmeuse. They're not tight fitting, especially if you buy them loose, yet still follow the bodyline. You might also like a cropped jacket since it obscures the waist a bit but still has that high-waisted definition. Harem pants of course sit fitted at the waist but are otherwise very loose and drapey, and then fitted at the ankle. You might also throw your energy less into fit if that really bothers you, and more into finding soft, lightweight materials, soft ruffles and rounded shapes and patterns especially at the neckline. Soft hair and colors, etc. That's a tough one, honestly. Really curvy figures can look like they're wearing tents if clothes don't have some sort of fittedness, the struggle is real. And even with the tent effect the boobs & butt still stick out because they're there and they always will. I still remember my mom making me try on pair after pair of jeans trying to find one that was "loose" around the butt, and guess what Mom, that doesn't exist when you're curvy. To this day I always feel afraid of looking "inappropriate" no matter what.

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TheGreennblue more like fitted vs loose

For me, I view constructed clothing as clothes that have their own shape/form physically---whereas unconstructed clothing are clothes that have no particular shape and generally look more like limp fabric (which relies on a body to have it's own shape). For example a constructed dress will look as if someone is already wearing the dress, even if the dress is just laying flat---but a unconstructed dress will look more like a pile of fabric in comparison.

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Doesn't matter

You mean Priyanka Chopra? She is soft dramatic--you could watch my video on comparing SN vs SD where I talk a lot about Priyanka!

Merriam Style Okay, thank you for your reply!

Personally, I think you can take the test, but don't be surprised if your body type changes soon too. I was 15 when I first took the test, and was a soft gamine. In less than a year, all of my yang answers changed to classic ones, and now I'm a soft classic.

I am 18 and kind of in between a classic and gamine (mainly classic, but also some random yin and yang answers thrown in). But, maybe, I will evolve to being a (soft) classic when I get a bit older (I doubt it though, as I am kind of fullgrown) what will change the most, is probably your flesh and proportions though. If you've always had long, narrow bones they won't totally change. I you have always had full lips or big eyes or anything they won't either. You may already know a bit of a direction, but don't be sure as there can still change a bit and in some cases 3 answers being different can change a lot.

Why not take the test and dress according to the results, and then take it again as your body changes, and then dress for that different result? If you're only temporarily, say, soft gamine, why not just dress that way in the meantime.

As others have commented, you will have some gaminish features due to being a teenager but some features won't change, so consider those. If you become a type quite distinct from gamine (as in you'll have barely any gamine answers) you might notice more changes soon, maybe at 15/16. For me I noticed a major change at that age (my figure become more full and romantic) and gamine lines no longer suited me fully even though I had teenage angularity until I was 18. Otherwise dress as the type you are now and adapt as your body grows.

I agree with all of these comments. You could take the test now and dress according to the results, and then take it again later since you'll need to buy new clothes later anyway. When I turned 13 I was five foot six. When I turned fourteen I was five foot ten.When I turned 17 I was 5 foot 11 and a half. My stepmom and Grandma dressed me in gamine styles which became progressively weirder as I aged. My mom dressed me in ingenue styles until I was 21. Now I'm wearing soft natural with ingenue essense styles and feel much more comfortable. My point is that while you're still young other people will dress you in styles that may not end up being the real you. Teenage years are a good time to experiment with fashion.

Have you tried doing Merriam's method of trying on different dresses and figuring out which lines look best/worst on you? I found that really helped me

12:28 is a dramatic! :)

@@thehalfbloodserb Thanks, still not but I will try to look what I have in my wardrobe. I think the "problem" is that I have a classic or gamine face, but I feel that my body is gamine (because I have long arms and legs + my height is short, 152 or so), however I have defined waist and big hips (which I think are romantic), but my legs are really muscular and not soft. It is still confusing but the more I learn, the sooner I will figure out which type I am. Thank you for replying :)

@@merriamstyle Thank you :)

@@sandramorales6647 No worries :) Merriam did have a video on how mismatched face and body shapes can work, not sure if that helps. It sounds to me like you might be a soft gamine, though that's just from the details you've mentioned. I relate somewhat since I have a completely romantic body with a soft gamine/ingenue face so I sometimes feel like I might be more gaminish, but dramatic lines look bad on me, soft natural and soft gamine okay if styled right, and (theatrical) romantic fits perfectly. Hence me recommending this method :)

Lily is a soft gamine

Soft Natural lines can work if you're a SD, in my own experience it makes you look very cosy and relaxed but for everyday wear that isn't often a problem at all. FN can be a bit too sharp just like regular Dramatic and contrast but that doesn't have to be a bad thing it's all up to your taste :)

Don't you think she looks kind of like Audrey Hepburn?

Romantic lines are also somewhat fitted. I've seen so many people mistake soft natural lines for romantic lines. A long flowy skirt can quickly become soft natural.

@@merriamstyle Thank you Merriam. It would be great if you could eventually please make a video on how to tell the difference between romantic and soft natural clothes. 😁

lol, I also don't.....just trying to get the idea out to more people! One of my soft classic coworkers copied instagrammers and since she's soft classic (in the middle so nothing looked too separate from her), she looked fine, but still, it inspired me way back then to eventually make a video like this.

Are you maybe a Soft Gamine trying out Flamboyant Gamine clothing or the other way around? As a Soft Dramatic most of the lines of a regular Dramatic deviate too much from myself and just doesn't work like you said yourself while SD works perfectly

M I see what you mean. I think that I’m trying regular gamine clothing when I’m actually a flamboyant gamine. I have extremely long limbs to the point where people think that I’m taller than I am (I’m 5’4”). And they’re quite slender like a Dramatic. My body type is very close to Alexa Chung’s but with longer arms and a smaller waist. But my face looks quite soft I think, which you can see in my profile pic, and I only gain weight either in my chest or butt area.

If you think you're FG, try skinny jeans and a tight tshirt as a narrow base, and wear a third layer (jacket is best, no knits) with an asymmetrical, irregular cut. The jacket also should be short, not too long, and boxy, without much waist emphasis (because FG body type is "boxy"in general). And colorful, asymmetric, angular, more chunky jewellery (earrings, eg). Thats the typical FG look. If you are this type, this outfit will look stunning on you!!!

Oh mais c'est génial !!!!!! N'hésitez pas si vous avez besoin d'aide pour des articles par exemple. En tout cas c'est une très bonne idée d'avoir fait un blog en français !

Je viens de m'abonner au compte Instagram ^^ EDIT : Et vous avez très bien expliqué les 13 body types (en plus avec les exemples et les réponses, c'est top !). Petite chose, pas très importante mais qui serait bien ce serait d'écrire les noms des célébrités que vous "utilisez" pour chaque type. Il y a par exemple une femme que je trouve super belle (la deuxième sur la première ligne, où vous montrer les visages des Classics). Ça permettrait de les chercher sur Internet pour voir les vêtements qu'elles portent et ce qui nous plaît le plus pour s'en inspirer.

Loveseconde merci beaucoup !!! Tu t’y connais en Kibbe aussi ? C’est super ! On répond aux suggestions si tu veux, et toutes les critiques sont bienvenues :)

@@diffsiuhgr4578 Je regarde beaucoup de vidéos là-dessus, je suis plus douée pour voir le Yin/Yang dans les vêtements (et donc voir à quels types de corps ils pourraient aller) par contre dire à quel type appartient telle ou telle personne, ça j'ai encore du mal.

@@diffsiuhgr4578 Je m’entraîne encore sur les Little Mix, je ne sais pas si vous connaissez, mais étant donné que c'est un girl-band et que sur scène elles doivent toutes être dans le même "thème" (comme tous les groupes), je trouve ça plus intéressant de voir comment elles arrivent à ce but plutôt que de prendre les célébrités une à une. Je dirais par exemple Jesy Nelson en Natural, Jade Thirlwall en Soft Gamine, mais Perrie Edwards et Leigh-Anne Pinnock je ne sais pas (peut-être Dramatic Classic pour la première et theatrical romantic pour la deuxième ?) Mais bon, j'apprends toujours ^^

Try answering the test first and see from there 😃

​@@hoebihoebi2536 For sure, I answered the questions several times... Everything sounds like a TR, but I'm too tall (170 cm, 5'7'')..... this is confusing for me!?

@@Drunkenjeanny actual height doesn't matter most of the time but rather how tall you look, instead of focuing on height, keep in mind of your silhouette. Rihanna is TR and she's around 5'8. Maybe try Soft Natural too.

@@hoebihoebi2536 I always thought, I would look like my normal size. or appear slightly taller... But as I'm watching pictures of me, it could be, that my head is a bit bigger than normal. (Which then vice versa means, I appear smaller, right?) Aw, it's difficult. Mila Kunis for Example is TR an doesn't have a real waist or hips at all, when looking at her in a bikini.

I personally think she is a (dramatic) classic. She looks too 'dainty' to me to be a natural and I think she looks great in classic symmetrical lines.