So thinking out loud... Approprio and Gaylene called Gamine for me, and springboarding from that help, I think I'm SG. I'm trying to figure out what I can do with this knowledge, what it suggests I do. I believe this is a body type, not what I think of as a style.
Reading the Kibbe suggestions, my take is that they're engineering ones... And I feel like maybe I've said this before... Weird. But anyways, it seems to me the suggestions talk about what fabrics, necklines, etc., will sit on the body well/comfortably. They're very specific. At least for SG, I got a lesson in textiles, for example.
What's stuck so far, because I feel it agrees with what I've learned from Angie and being on YLF, is this: For SG, it's crisp necklines yet soft fabrics (which connects up with the revolution that the silky button down was for me, when I learned about it from Angie), tapered skirts or fit and flare, and pants that show ankle structure are very friendly.
Extrapolating, it means straight office trousers look better when I wear them with heels... But maybe trousers period always look better with heels. I don't know. But I feel I do tend to be shrimpified by them (and this corresponds to the retirement of many a pair since my time here). I still have some of course, but they're a much sleeker fit.
What strikes me is that these rules kinda apply no matter the style I'm doing.... I can go little girl, which is what I associate with 'Gamine,' but it can be edgy and mature too.
