I'm a Soft Summer Classic, who is also plus-size (hopefully not much longer). It's SO difficult to find things. It's not common to find Classic lines in plus-size, and those places that sell Classic clothes, such as Talbots here in the US, never seem to have Soft Summer colors. Can't wait to get out of plus-sizes so I will have more to choose from. Thanks for your videos Vanessa, I really enjoy them.
I can totally relate to you Louise. The only alternative I can think of is to get clothes made, but that could be very expensive when it comes to jackets. In terms of dresses my sister in law bought a very expensive dress in her perfect style and is now planning to get a whole lot of them made in different fabrics that are in her colours. She is so slim but do you think she could find much out there in the shops, No! So much is shapeless and awful. Good luck with your plans. Lots of love.
Yes, I'm a soft dramatic and I'm always trying to make a cohesive top to bottom outfit! It's why I'm so drawn towards vintage clothes. They used to wear a lot more matching top and bottom sets! It's not as fashionable now to be matchy-matchy but it really works for soft dramatics. It's always a struggle and I'm on a fashion journey myself.. Just like you said, finding anything in the stores is really hard and takes forever. We're just not who most clothes are made for :/ Thanks for making these videos, they're really encouraging!
Thanks Lexi. Your idea of vintage clothes is such a great idea. I might hit the vintage shops soon. How exciting. All the best with your wardrobe creations. I am sure you will do amazingly well.
Thank you for being here everyone 💝 I’m sharing some of my realisations for keeping it simple and inexpensive for good looking casual wear outfits for Kibbe Body Types
You have helped me so much I thought I was a soft natural and it didn't feel right...I decided to take it seriously, measured myself, hours of research and I see that soft dramatic fits me perfectly
I loved the story about the woman in the store. Sharing kibbe (and color analysis) with other women is such a gift. Who knows, you could have changed her life via confidence! This information is too good and useful to keep to ourselves, we should be sharing with others any chance we get! Great video!
Love your videos! As an SD who is also a Soft Summer, the monochrome look can be challenging. But I think if we can’t do full monochrome, then at least sticking to the same level of chroma in each color we wear would be second best. Like instead of wearing a light mauve top with dark denim, wearing a light blue denim instead.
Agreed. The jeans and top don’t have the same depth of colour and I know next time I get jeans to try to do that, so I totally agree. I think looking at your Zyla signature colours of hair and eyes and using them as base colours could help choose the most powerful base colours and then accessories in the soft summer colours would be amazing. Thanks for you thoughtful comment. Very valuable 💝
@@norriswa1 I'm a soft summer SD too and I was wondering - did you find any way to incorporate the reds and pinks from our palettes into outfits that honor our SD lines? I agree, blue colors are more easy to pair with grey or blue jeans, but what about those pinks and reds? I find those to be the most flattering on my but have no idea on how to do them monochromatic. Would love to hear your thoughts on that!
@@sobean9309 Well....I'm guilty of owning some pink pants, lol, but honestly wearing head to toe pink is a little much for me. What I like to do is find pants at the same level of lightness as the pink tone I'm wearing and use that for a skirt or pants. So, light pink sweaters can go with light taupe pants, and a deeper berry pink top can go with a darker tone of taupe pants. I can't think of anything else to get close to a monochrome look, unless it's wearing really light pinks with white.
@@norriswa1 thanks for your reply! :) I never thought of the pink + taupe combination since I only own grey, black and blue jeans but that is definitely worth a try. what color of shoes do you wear with that combo? taupe like the color of the bottom? Do you think there is a way to combine it with greys if the level of deepness from top and bottom is similar? Or only with a grey on top over the pink/red?
Dear Vanessa, I just wanted to say how amazing your content is and how much it has helped me in my body confidence. As a SD I resonate with absolutely everything you are talking about in you videos.. I have never felt so supported and inspired before as after seeing you talking about the subject. I have been familiar with Kibbe for quite a while, but have never found such profound análisis as in you videos. So THANK YOU VANESSA, your videos literally changed my life. PS: I actually created my youtube account just to be able to reach out to you 😄.
Lilia you have brought tears of joy to me. Thank you for your heartfelt reaching out to me. I am so happy that you feel supported and inspired on your journey. 💝💝💝
Thank you, beautiful Vanessa! I’m making lists of SD guidelines in my head and in my fashion journal 📓 (I started one this year). I like the mono-colour thing - it’s enormously flattering! I’m reconsidering the use of belts; I’m not sure whether and how they’re advisable for a soft dramatic, but one can only play and experiment and determine whether it breaks up the line. Your idea of using knits is great, as they’re both fitted aaaaand drapey, an SD win! I’ve found it’s the finer merino ones that work 😺, as they’re a fine gauge and fabric. Thanks again for your wonderful advice and personal, lovely vids. I’m glad your adorable Lily-dog is okay after her kayak-misadventure! 💕🦩
Thank you Jacquelina for your lovely comment and for caring about Lilly xx You sound as though you have it really well sorted out. Definitely the one colour so flattering as you say. I do have ties that create bows in my waist that work for me but always the same colour. A belt that is a different colour for me doesn’t work. What is exciting is trying on different things from our wardrobes and realising why things have looked good or why they haven’t. It makes dressing so easy now doesn’t it? Your fashion journal is a great idea. 💝🎁🌺
@@NesKimStyle thanks Vanessa. It’s a habit I learned at fashion school, as they encouraged us to record our outfits daily and what they “meant”, or why we chose them. Another exercise for a different subject was to write an essay as to how we arrived at our “style” and what changes took place over the years. There have been a couple of times I’ve lost my way, and I started watching you and Aly Art and French Style this year to try to refine things and rethink the 50-something body and the post children me... what is it exactly I want to present, how original or fitting-in I want to be, what sort of colours I want to wear now (I recently weeded most of my browns, for example, and have lots of jewel colours now . Well the journal idea was re-ignited while listening to the French woman, who also runs a style school. Mine has magazine clippings of great colours, good SD lines, upcyclingideas and so on. It’s super fun 🤩 as I rethink things!
I’m pleased your dog is ok 💕. Great information. Just wondering what I can do with all those patterned, coloured tops in my wardrobe? Sounds like our style is a neutral palette?
Another inspiring video Nes! Thank you :) I always appreciate listening to your ponderings and seeing your outfits modeled on you. Loved your navy top and leggings, tight jeans, flats and anorak jacket. That was a truly flattering combination. I've moved away from tights because my old-lady legs have become rather reedy :) I need more balance. Pants are better in a ponte knit for example and more pants-like as opposed to tights. I repaired a beautiful pair of linen (very flowy linen - lantern shaped) pants today. I have to be mindful with these though...they are high waisted (I put an elastic back and flat faced front on the waist band) so they need a bolero and snugger top to balance out the silhouette. I do suit boleros with my high waisted pants and skirts. Actually too long a top can be problematic with my skinny legs poking out the bottom. Then I look like a blob on pins :) I've never worn the wrap style top and dress but seeing your peplum wrap - what WOW factor that is on you! It made me want to make myself one like NOW :) I've finally returned to my sewing (my eyes are finally good to go!) and I'm just finishing up a duster which is a silhouette us soft dramatics should wear :) I'm making myself a few of these - the one I'm finishing is in a robust olive sateen with Hong Kong seams. Love it :)
So excited you are back into sewing your body type and eyes are good. Your pants sound lovely. I was thinking about bolero tops and why they work and I think its because the long line is being created from the high waisted pants all the way down, so you are not breaking the vertical around the stomach area. I will look up ponte knits. That sounds like a lovely fabric. What fun you are going to have with your sewing 🧵 keep us updated as to what you make Kathleen 💝
@@NesKimStyle I'm taking yet another fitting course with Alexandra Morgan (she has a youtube channel as well) - the GODDESS of fit honestly. We're lucky she's here in Victoria so I've had the privilege of studying with her in person. Learning how to make clothes that fit my body has taught me more about my body shape than anything else. Where I'm long (neck and legs for example), short (I'm very short waisted which is probably typical for a soft dramatic) and of course all the rest of the idiosyncrasies like long flat pelvis. Narrow shoulders with a large bust hardly fits in any pattern block which is why it is SO hard for soft dramatics to find decent fitting clothes off the rack! I'm excited about making some jackets. A girl can never have too many in a climate like ours :)
You look really great in those outfits! 😊 my wardrobe color palette includes black, navy, gray, white, yellow, red, and pink. I suppose if I want to wear the yellow, red, and pink I would need to go with a dress or matching set to keep the line then? Rather than having a top or bottom with that color and a neutral on the other part. Tricky! Good idea that you have been waiting to shop until figuring this all out!
i'm so confused! all the advice for hourglass shapes is to emphasize the waist, tuck in tops, etc. now i'm thinking maybe i shouldn't tuck in tops? but i'm afraid with tops that come down to the crotch that my vertical line is disrupted because my legs look shorter?
As long as you look to have a T shape with hips and bust it is up to you. If the pants and skivvy were one colour if it was tucked I you would still have a long line. If a plus size you might want more draping though so tucking in would feel too ‘romantic’. SD tend to like more draping
I think tucking is only good for skinny SDs. If not skinny, it just emphasizes the stomach imo. It's hard when many of the examples of SD are slimmer, because those recs aren't going to work if overweight
I'm a Soft Summer Classic, who is also plus-size (hopefully not much longer). It's SO difficult to find things. It's not common to find Classic lines in plus-size, and those places that sell Classic clothes, such as Talbots here in the US, never seem to have Soft Summer colors. Can't wait to get out of plus-sizes so I will have more to choose from. Thanks for your videos Vanessa, I really enjoy them.
I can totally relate to you Louise. The only alternative I can think of is to get clothes made, but that could be very expensive when it comes to jackets. In terms of dresses my sister in law bought a very expensive dress in her perfect style and is now planning to get a whole lot of them made in different fabrics that are in her colours. She is so slim but do you think she could find much out there in the shops, No! So much is shapeless and awful. Good luck with your plans. Lots of love.
Yes, I'm a soft dramatic and I'm always trying to make a cohesive top to bottom outfit! It's why I'm so drawn towards vintage clothes. They used to wear a lot more matching top and bottom sets! It's not as fashionable now to be matchy-matchy but it really works for soft dramatics. It's always a struggle and I'm on a fashion journey myself.. Just like you said, finding anything in the stores is really hard and takes forever. We're just not who most clothes are made for :/ Thanks for making these videos, they're really encouraging!
Thanks Lexi. Your idea of vintage clothes is such a great idea. I might hit the vintage shops soon. How exciting. All the best with your wardrobe creations. I am sure you will do amazingly well.
Thank you for being here everyone 💝 I’m sharing some of my realisations for keeping it simple and inexpensive for good looking casual wear outfits for Kibbe Body Types
just found your video. I enjoyed watching your beautiful video today. You did such a good job 👏 Thanks for sharing this wonderful channel with me
You have helped me so much
I thought I was a soft natural and it didn't feel right...I decided to take it seriously, measured myself, hours of research and I see that soft dramatic fits me perfectly
I loved the story about the woman in the store. Sharing kibbe (and color analysis) with other women is such a gift. Who knows, you could have changed her life via confidence! This information is too good and useful to keep to ourselves, we should be sharing with others any chance we get! Great video!
So pleased this helps
Love your videos!
As an SD who is also a Soft Summer, the monochrome look can be challenging. But I think if we can’t do full monochrome, then at least sticking to the same level of chroma in each color we wear would be second best. Like instead of wearing a light mauve top with dark denim, wearing a light blue denim instead.
I guess same level of lightness, not chroma. I think I used that term incorrectly.
Agreed. The jeans and top don’t have the same depth of colour and I know next time I get jeans to try to do that, so I totally agree. I think looking at your Zyla signature colours of hair and eyes and using them as base colours could help choose the most powerful base colours and then accessories in the soft summer colours would be amazing. Thanks for you thoughtful comment. Very valuable 💝
@@norriswa1 I'm a soft summer SD too and I was wondering - did you find any way to incorporate the reds and pinks from our palettes into outfits that honor our SD lines? I agree, blue colors are more easy to pair with grey or blue jeans, but what about those pinks and reds? I find those to be the most flattering on my but have no idea on how to do them monochromatic. Would love to hear your thoughts on that!
@@sobean9309 Well....I'm guilty of owning some pink pants, lol, but honestly wearing head to toe pink is a little much for me. What I like to do is find pants at the same level of lightness as the pink tone I'm wearing and use that for a skirt or pants. So, light pink sweaters can go with light taupe pants, and a deeper berry pink top can go with a darker tone of taupe pants. I can't think of anything else to get close to a monochrome look, unless it's wearing really light pinks with white.
@@norriswa1 thanks for your reply! :) I never thought of the pink + taupe combination since I only own grey, black and blue jeans but that is definitely worth a try. what color of shoes do you wear with that combo? taupe like the color of the bottom?
Do you think there is a way to combine it with greys if the level of deepness from top and bottom is similar? Or only with a grey on top over the pink/red?
Dear Vanessa, I just wanted to say how amazing your content is and how much it has helped me in my body confidence. As a SD I resonate with absolutely everything you are talking about in you videos.. I have never felt so supported and inspired before as after seeing you talking about the subject. I have been familiar with Kibbe for quite a while, but have never found such profound análisis as in you videos. So THANK YOU VANESSA, your videos literally changed my life. PS: I actually created my youtube account just to be able to reach out to you 😄.
Lilia you have brought tears of joy to me. Thank you for your heartfelt reaching out to me. I am so happy that you feel supported and inspired on your journey. 💝💝💝
You are making bullet points in my head. Learning so much from you. Thanks for making these videos ❤️
Always a pleasure Sunny. Thanks so much for being here 😘
Very helpful thanks Ness. I love that you're being the shopping fairy for women to help them choose what makes them pop. Love that! 💜🙏🌺
Thanks beautiful lady. Hope you are having fun 💓
@@NesKimStyle to quote Forrest Gump (quoting his mother)... "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get." 💝💝💝
@@teresafinoalchemy so true... exciting actually
@@NesKimStyle truly!!! ❤️🙏
Thank you, beautiful Vanessa! I’m making lists of SD guidelines in my head and in my fashion journal 📓 (I started one this year). I like the mono-colour thing - it’s enormously flattering! I’m reconsidering the use of belts; I’m not sure whether and how they’re advisable for a soft dramatic, but one can only play and experiment and determine whether it breaks up the line.
Your idea of using knits is great, as they’re both fitted aaaaand drapey, an SD win! I’ve found it’s the finer merino ones that work 😺, as they’re a fine gauge and fabric.
Thanks again for your wonderful advice and personal, lovely vids. I’m glad your adorable Lily-dog is okay after her kayak-misadventure! 💕🦩
Thank you Jacquelina for your lovely comment and for caring about Lilly xx You sound as though you have it really well sorted out. Definitely the one colour so flattering as you say. I do have ties that create bows in my waist that work for me but always the same colour. A belt that is a different colour for me doesn’t work. What is exciting is trying on different things from our wardrobes and realising why things have looked good or why they haven’t. It makes dressing so easy now doesn’t it? Your fashion journal is a great idea. 💝🎁🌺
@@NesKimStyle thanks Vanessa. It’s a habit I learned at fashion school, as they encouraged us to record our outfits daily and what they “meant”, or why we chose them. Another exercise for a different subject was to write an essay as to how we arrived at our “style” and what changes took place over the years.
There have been a couple of times I’ve lost my way, and I started watching you and Aly Art and French Style this year to try to refine things and rethink the 50-something body and the post children me... what is it exactly I want to present, how original or fitting-in I want to be, what sort of colours I want to wear now (I recently weeded most of my browns, for example, and have lots of jewel colours now . Well the journal idea was re-ignited while listening to the French woman, who also runs a style school. Mine has magazine clippings of great colours, good SD lines, upcyclingideas and so on. It’s super fun 🤩 as I rethink things!
@@jacquelinamolluscino3925 how fascinating.. so impressed with you. I love those fashion channels too. You are going to create a wonderful wardrobe 💝
I’m pleased your dog is ok 💕. Great information. Just wondering what I can do with all those patterned, coloured tops in my wardrobe? Sounds like our style is a neutral palette?
I own a lot of tights too, so this is very helpful. I will start looking for knit tops that are long enough! Thank you!
So good we can utilise our tights 💝🎁
I have a long torso and always thought colours that were different would be better to shorten it.
But I think you are right. Monochromatic.
I think when you create one outer line that’s dominant, that is what is seen in my opinion
Great video, I really like your advice. I have started to think more about monochrome looks for myself.
It is such a game changer Jeanette 💝
It does look nice, Vanessa.
Thanks you are such a beautiful person Julie 💝
Another inspiring video Nes! Thank you :) I always appreciate listening to your ponderings and seeing your outfits modeled on you. Loved your navy top and leggings, tight jeans, flats and anorak jacket. That was a truly flattering combination. I've moved away from tights because my old-lady legs have become rather reedy :) I need more balance. Pants are better in a ponte knit for example and more pants-like as opposed to tights. I repaired a beautiful pair of linen (very flowy linen - lantern shaped) pants today. I have to be mindful with these though...they are high waisted (I put an elastic back and flat faced front on the waist band) so they need a bolero and snugger top to balance out the silhouette. I do suit boleros with my high waisted pants and skirts. Actually too long a top can be problematic with my skinny legs poking out the bottom. Then I look like a blob on pins :) I've never worn the wrap style top and dress but seeing your peplum wrap - what WOW factor that is on you! It made me want to make myself one like NOW :) I've finally returned to my sewing (my eyes are finally good to go!) and I'm just finishing up a duster which is a silhouette us soft dramatics should wear :) I'm making myself a few of these - the one I'm finishing is in a robust olive sateen with Hong Kong seams. Love it :)
So excited you are back into sewing your body type and eyes are good. Your pants sound lovely. I was thinking about bolero tops and why they work and I think its because the long line is being created from the high waisted pants all the way down, so you are not breaking the vertical around the stomach area. I will look up ponte knits. That sounds like a lovely fabric. What fun you are going to have with your sewing 🧵 keep us updated as to what you make Kathleen 💝
@@NesKimStyle I'm taking yet another fitting course with Alexandra Morgan (she has a youtube channel as well) - the GODDESS of fit honestly. We're lucky she's here in Victoria so I've had the privilege of studying with her in person. Learning how to make clothes that fit my body has taught me more about my body shape than anything else. Where I'm long (neck and legs for example), short (I'm very short waisted which is probably typical for a soft dramatic) and of course all the rest of the idiosyncrasies like long flat pelvis. Narrow shoulders with a large bust hardly fits in any pattern block which is why it is SO hard for soft dramatics to find decent fitting clothes off the rack! I'm excited about making some jackets. A girl can never have too many in a climate like ours :)
@@PsychicKathleen oh wow Alexandra sounds amazing.. I can’t wait to hear all about your jackets you make 💝
You look really great in those outfits! 😊 my wardrobe color palette includes black, navy, gray, white, yellow, red, and pink. I suppose if I want to wear the yellow, red, and pink I would need to go with a dress or matching set to keep the line then? Rather than having a top or bottom with that color and a neutral on the other part. Tricky! Good idea that you have been waiting to shop until figuring this all out!
Yes Flora that is your best option. The one long line of colour is the trickiest part of being a soft dramatic. Let us know any ideas you have 🌺💓
Another inspirational video Nessy...loved it..!
Lilly is such a beauty as well...Good luck with your exams🥰
Thanks Gail. I just got my marks back for my essay : 83% Distinction - I am chuffed
@@NesKimStyle you are a little genius 💛💛❤💙💚
@@gailholman4246 i wish 💝
😊👍
Ness looking very nice
i'm so confused! all the advice for hourglass shapes is to emphasize the waist, tuck in tops, etc. now i'm thinking maybe i shouldn't tuck in tops? but i'm afraid with tops that come down to the crotch that my vertical line is disrupted because my legs look shorter?
As long as you look to have a T shape with hips and bust it is up to you. If the pants and skivvy were one colour if it was tucked I you would still have a long line. If a plus size you might want more draping though so tucking in would feel too ‘romantic’. SD tend to like more draping
I think tucking is only good for skinny SDs. If not skinny, it just emphasizes the stomach imo. It's hard when many of the examples of SD are slimmer, because those recs aren't going to work if overweight
Hello I have been told by professional’s that I am a Romantic or Romantic. I feel like a Sift Dramatic at 5’10.
So confused! 2:11
You can’t be a romantic at 5ft10. Look at SD or FN
Would you discuss casual for naturals, please?
Yes definitely 😘
Thank you! I’m learning so much from your channel! I think I’m a natural.
@@reginaleidig373 lucky you ...naturals have a smorgasbord of clothes out there 🌺