I have been on a fashion educational journey, and early on, I came across Kibbe Body types
I've been trying to type myself since 2020, as either a Soft Gamine SG or Theatrical Romantic TR
I feel SG in spirit but I am unsure of the lines, when I try to see myself as a TR, I think I am too angular/square which makes me think I am a Flamboyant Gamine
When I think I am FG, none of the recommendations work for me definitely
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Jennie: Kibbe Analysis
This is a random topic I'm extremely passionate about and I've been working on this hypothesis for a long time. This is going to be a little long so bear with me besties 😌
Jennie is often typed as a Flamboyant Gamine/FG in Kibbe communities and I think this is dead wrong. She's clearly a Theatrical Romantic/TR.
Flamboyant Gamines are described as having a straight narrow build and kind of athletic. Curves are minimal.
These are pictures of Jennie at a normal weight. Her body is fuller, lush and rounded. She's lost a lot of weight this year so she looks very underweight rn. Its easy to tell from these pictures that her weight is stored in her chest, hips and thighs. Her face is fuller and her cheeks are round when she's at a more normal weight.
Her build is neither straight nor narrow and she most definitely does not have an "athletic build".
In fact she was one of the few Kpop idols who had a healthier-looking body but she's very underweight right now😩
Just compare these two looks to each other. She looks good in the black outfit but awful in the yellow/white one. Why? Because she's not wearing her lines or honouring her essence.
All TRs have Romantic/Dramatic/Ingenue essence and so does Jennie. When she wears light, pastel colours, shapeless outfits and "cutesy" accessories, she looks very washed out and unlike herself.
Look at these outfits and how they make her shine. Its her Dramatic essence that makes her give off these boss bitch vibes. Even in the bottom two outfits where she's wearing jeans and a pant suit in the other, the colors, the fit, the styling enhances her Romantic/Dramatic/Ingenue essence and makes her really stand out.
Its her Ingenue essence that makes her look so babyish and look younger than she is.
However, despite her babyface she does not look purely innocent. She has that femme fatale charm and magnetism.
(L to R)
Joan Collins, Mila Kunis
Selena Gomez & Jennie
The other 3 are Kibbe verified Theatrical Romantics and look at all of their faces together. They clearly project a similar quality. All of them have very seductive "bedroom" eyes, full lush faces that are very youthful looking. There's an undeniable magnetism to all of them. They all clearly fit the Romantic Dramatic Ingenue essence.
This is what Jennie wore to the Met Gala this year. This outfit clearly shows how you can wear your lines and still not honour your essence. This look is too cutesy for Jennie. It honours her Romantic-Ingenue essence but not her powerful Dramatic essence.
Compare the above outfit to the two outfits below. She looks so elegant, ladylike and poised in these. It seems to bring out a very different side to her. She does not look out of place or "plain" in these.
The thing with Kibbe IDs like Theatrical Romantic/Soft Dramatic is that its very hard to play down the glamour of the ID. They are by nature so extravagant and luxurious. So in an outfit that's even a notch below the mark, these individuals look very drab and boring.
Look at these 3 outfits and compare them with her looks from above. All 3 are very Gamine lewks but they do not flatter her in the slightest. She simply looks out of place in these clothes.
It goes against her ID and her essence.
However in the last few years there's been a clear departure to her earlier style and she seems to prefer to dress like a Gamine
TRs have a femme fatale essence, this can overwhelm others
Gamines have a sweeter, gentler presence that is not as overpowering.
In the past when Jennie still dressed according to her ID. She often received a lot of flak for being "YG's Princess", "Ice Queen" and was heavily bullied online for her perceived attitude and style.
Just look at the confident boss bitch aura she radiates even in these casual outfits that bring out her Dramatic essence and look at the ones above where she looks gentler and less intimidating.
She rarely even wears makeup these days which is just sad. Considering the hate she received so early on in her career it makes sense as to why she'd downplay her style so heavily and try to appear "softer" and meeker. Its truly sad that a woman has been villainized to such an extent that she feels the need to change her own image.
This is the power of Image Identity. I'll make another post about how several celebs have successfully incorporated their IDs to sell their image and what changing ID looks like.
These are all outfits she wore on tour this year and last year and you can tell that she's clearly trying to appear more cutesy and girly. However they are not very harmonious on her.
these are just a few of her old outfits but look at how good she looks in these outfits!!
✨her aura✨is unmatched, she looks fierce and powerful and completely in charge; no wonder the netizens were pissed.
Given the rumours about Blackpink's potential disbanding, I am intrigued to see how her style will change and develop when she has the independence to be herself and not worry about outshining others or "standing out too much".
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oh sometimes i'm overcome with the realization of just how sentimental a bitch i am
like i really am straight up just playing make-believe with these characters like they're digital barbies
okay so in Iona's inventory, i've had this necklace
since very early in act 1.
it was in Aradin's chest at the Grove, and it was the first thing "we" managed to get with the "I distract them with conversation/busking and you steal everything that isn't nailed down" act/trick I had thought up for her and Astarion. I thought it'd be kinda cute for him to, at the end of this test run, present it with a ~theatrical flourish~ once just out of earshot of its original owner, and for her to ~graciously allow~ him to drape it around her neck, as a hamfisted and silly act of mock-courtship they both know is false. (it was kind of a... "we both know what this is all about and where it's headed, but wouldn't it be fun to play make-believe and pretend it's something entirely different" type of thing.)
I thought it'd be cute, if a touch bittersweet for her to keep it, just slotted away in her little "sentimental items" pouch, like.... next to the dog toy, her old wedding band, and the other useless junk she couldn't bring herself to throw away or sell.
and then today, i found this as I was selling stuff in the Glittering Gala.
it's the same design. and i like to describe Iona's eyes as "amber" when I write about them (they're kind of a reddish/yellowish, pretty medium brown). and she looks much better in golds and reds than she does in blues and silvers.
so. um.
guess who got this bloody thing "sneaked" into her inventory at the long rest.
if you think i won't 1.) exit a trading screen abruptly, 2.) switch controlled characters, 4.) buy a silly and utterly useless junk item AS that character (thought about just picking her pocket but.... we have 35k gold. why would i.), and 4.) keep it in that character's inventory until it "seems like" the PC isn't "paying attention", and then 5.) drop it into their inventory "unnoticed", all for LITERALLY NO GOOD REASON other than just to act out a silly little gesture and support the little fanfic in my head, well.
you'd be very wrong.
((and i was grinning and giggling downright embarrassingly the whole time too))
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