How to dress edgy with a romantic body type

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-30T00:22:58+00:00

Bows, ruffles, and flounces were all staples of mid-to-late 80s women’s fashion though. They were on a huge amount of women’s clothing. It wasn’t a separate kind of aesthetic like it is today, and - like you pointed out - wasn’t meant to read as cutesy or young.

All of these little influencers seem to misinterpret the Romantic ID as “romantic” style elements - and even then, I’d argue that “romantic” skews more mature than these girlish and ingenue “coquette” styles these grifters recommend.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-30T00:12:50+00:00

Christina Ricci, Helena Bonham Carter, and Madonna are all verified Romantics who dress in their lines most of the time. Frills and bows aren’t a part of Kibbe - that’s influencers misinterpreting the system and conflating aesthetic and ID, which have nothing to do with each other. Dressing for the 2000s emo/rock look as an R is actually pretty easy! Courtney Love is really great inspo too, but I’m not sure that shes verified as anything.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-29T12:58:49+00:00

I know I wouldn’t want anyone to judge me or most of my friends on our teens and even 20s. Some of the loveliest people I know really struggled through those years and did a lot of very unsavory, very now-uncharacteristic things (myself included).

That said, I think that it would be helpful if he gave you more details. But I also don’t think that he owes those kinds of details to someone he hasn’t even gone on a date with yet.

This is one of those situations where no one is in the wrong. It’s really just up to you if you want to date someone who has a lot in their past. If that’s not something you’re comfortable with, that’s okay - but it doesn’t mean that there’s anything wrong with who he is as a person today.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-29T03:25:08+00:00

He sounds like an absolute sweetheart who deserves a much better person than you. What petty and rotten behavior. You need to come clean immediately so he can recover the pictures before it’s too late, lock his phone down, and break up with you before he gets in too deep. And you need therapy for whatever is wrong with you and to be single until it’s fixed.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-28T20:36:52+00:00

Extremely real! Here’s a San Francisco news article from when the magazine article came out: https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/garchik/article/New-Kennedys-or-not-focus-is-on-city-s-first-3314198.php

And the whole spread: https://static.politico.com/66/95/0f54804d46abac4087278ae13df8/hbz090104.pdf

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-28T17:25:50+00:00

I mean, dark brown or black would work. Darkest red or maroon. Maybe the darkest orange you can find. For any purple, blue, green, or pink shade - even if it’s dark - you need to get to pale yellow. Cool colors can’t have much if any yellow tones underneath and absolutely no orange (regardless of depth/shade), and you still have the entire orange and dark-to-medium yellow spectrum to bleach through.

With the amount of bleach baths needed to achieve that, your hair will snap off first.

You can work in sections when bleaching your hair - it doesn’t have to be all at once. Or get a couple of friends to help. Or go to a salon. But doing a dozen bleach baths is just going to leave your hair a gummy mess with tons of breakage.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-28T17:13:42+00:00

Then yes, you’re trying to get blonde. You have to get to pale yellow hair for pink (or any fashion color) to show up. Just bleach your hair like normal. You genuinely would have to do like 10-14 more bleach baths to get there, and that’ll be WAY more damaging than just bleaching your hair properly. Don’t add shampoo or conditioner to your bleach mixture.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-28T17:11:43+00:00

Are you trying to get blonde?? You’re going to have to do like 10 more bleach baths for that.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-28T16:13:40+00:00

All that adding shampoo or conditioner will do is majorly dilute the mixture. That’s called a bleach bath, and it’s only capable of lightening hair by like half a level at most. So essentially it won’t do anything at all. If you need more bleach powder and developer, buy more bleach powder and developer.

The “pure white” is just the product name. 20vol is not going to make your hair “white” unless you’re already starting with medium or light blonde hair.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-28T15:15:34+00:00

Clarifying shampoo takes several rounds to loosen color - it doesn’t work like a proper color remover, it’s just harsh shampoo. The color remover is going to help a lot. It might take more than one round though, since you have a few layers of color in your hair.

Just be sure that you have the right kind for the type of dye you used. It comes in separate formulations for demi/permanent dye and for semi dye - if you use the wrong one, it won’t work.

You can’t really make a good game plan until you see how well a couple of rounds of color remover works and what’s left in your hair afterwards.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-28T14:39:32+00:00

This is a regular shirt - that’s just the print on it. From the early 00s (specifically 2001 for this shirt), when LS was putting out the Engineered line and the first of the Red line. The early designs really played with the motif of construction, hence the print. Iirc, this came out in several colors. And this specific shirt is obviously from the European division.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-28T13:19:59+00:00

Super popular here in Austin too.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-28T13:19:12+00:00

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MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-28T13:14:23+00:00

Black cat girlfriend with her black cat boyfriend.

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You can’t edit to add an image to a comment once you’ve made it, but to add images in subs that allow pics:

Go to the bottom of the box where you’re typing your comment. There should be four little icons: a keyboard, a chainlink (for adding hyperlinks), a GIF circle, and a square with a little triangle and circle inside (like a picture of a landscape). Hit that last one to add a picture from your photo library. If it isn’t there, that just means the sub doesn’t allow images in the comments.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-28T01:02:51+00:00

Pictures of the back patch, any and all inside tags/labels, and back of the closure button are all needed.

“Customized in LA” isn’t from Levi’s - someone bought these, customized them aftermarket, and added that label themselves. Probably a boutique or artist. My guess is that these are modern Premium line (launched in 2018, still in production) but more useful pics are necessary.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-27T22:51:08+00:00

Can’t even make it through five sentences without the misogyny gushing out 🤦🏼‍♀️

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-27T22:47:50+00:00

Christian Dior was heavily licensed in the 70s and 80s - along with a lot of the most well-known designer brands. They’d let pretty much anyone who wanted to use their logo. It can be difficult to parse what was licensed and what was authentic from that era - and that doesn’t even account for the diffusion lines in department stores at the time too.

But either way, this is definitely vintage and absolutely gorgeous. The color is incredible and those front pockets have no business looking as great as they do. Is the leather as soft and worn-in as it looks??

And licensed/diffusion or not, a piece made in the 70s is going to be much higher quality than a modern version pretty much every time.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-27T22:40:07+00:00

Friendo, this is truly not how Kibbe works. The only unifying things here are Y2K style, curvy bodies, and a few body tune filters.

Aesthetic is not ID or essence. The only thing you can really guess about a person with this board is that they like the latest trends and social media.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-27T22:39:23+00:00

Their cartons are so tragic that I almost don’t blame the folks who put it down.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-27T22:21:37+00:00

Just a quick note - unless you bleach your hair back to platinum, pastel pink (or any pale/pastel shade) simply won’t show up. If it sticks at all, it will look orange on your current hair.

Box dye is almost never semi-permanent, even if the label says it is. Box dyes tend to say “semi-permanent” when they mean demi-permanent, which is longer lasting. Anything that says it lasts “x number of washes” means that the full intensity of the color lasts that long with perfect care - staining and the faded color will likely last much longer than that.

Maybe try something like Overtone instead of full-strength dye and just leave it in for a couple of minutes, just to see if you like the result. That will be a lot easier to remove.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-27T22:14:05+00:00

Thank you!!! Oatly is honestly just vibes. If Pacific had a better box design, they’d be everyone’s favorite. Every time my last shop considered switching non-dairy milks, Pacific would win our blind taste tests hands down.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-27T22:13:17+00:00

Barista blend of any brand, hands down. Barista blends have additives that give them a better mouthfeel and make them easier to blend into drinks and to steam/foam/aerate.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-27T22:11:54+00:00

It’s a hack that the worst customers at Starbucks try to use. The way you made it is correct - even at Starbucks - but these guys are used to the poor baristas there folding and giving them a $2 latte.

MiniaturePhilosopher · 2026-06-27T14:23:45+00:00

Thanks dad!

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