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Dramatic: How To Style Jeans

Every type has its own unique perfection, and for the Dramatic, it's legs for daaaaaaays.





Kibbe's advice is to accentuate your long line with a head-to-toe monochromatic look. So how to blue jeans fit into this?

The key is not to make it identical in COLOR, necessarily, but in VALUE, which in photography terms is the lightness/darkness of the piece. The lady below is doing it well: dark shirt over dark jeans. A light shirt over light jeans would work too. They don't have to be all matchy-matchy, just have to be similar enough that, together, they seem to be one long line, thus accentuating this graceful music-note-shaped body.

How do you know you're doing it right? Take a full-length selfie and turn it black and white. If the shirt and jeans now look identical, voila! They are equal in value!

(Side note: I'm delighted to see a Dramatic model modelling Dramatic clothing. We Soft Naturals hardly ever get that. Grrrrrr)


Mid-Rise jeans from White House Black Market for the Kibbe Dramatic

This pair only comes in one shade, although it's neutral enough to work for anyone except True Spring or the two Light Seasons.


When you look for jeans, look for mid and low rise - yes, low rise is coming back! Skinny jeans are said to be out, womp womp, but bootcut jeans also work well for you and are still going strong.


Someday the 20th and 21st centuries will be know as the Period of the Jeans, much like the Period of the Corset in the 19th century or the Period of the Dirndl in the 16th-18th centuries. What do you think will follow jeans? Fashion is fun!


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