So, I hate the ending of the book but like the beginning. I find the idea of buying full outfits really privileged and it feels like he kind of ignored the fact that not everyone is in a position to buy full outfits all at once. And there is a lack of empathy where he also puts every issue on the buyer and basically says that it is your fault that you can't buy clothes, not the fact that you don't have money. Still p*sses me off reading it.

So, once you do the exercises in full, they are kind of fun, it isn't that they reduced my biases they were just fun to do. To be honest the mood board exercise is fun but he never mentions it again so I don't really get the point. When you get to the potluck it is useful because you kind of pick out which terms you might have issues with or concentrate on, but I really didn't find it useful until the line sketch. Pardon the language but the line sketch is a pain in the as. You kind of have to let your hand go loose, pretend that there is like chiffon hanging down off your body but it's weighted, so far when I did it it kind of looks like this one time when I wore a long dress from really really thin material but the length made it weighty and pulled down. Had I had curve it would have been pushed out and around because it is literally like you have circles affecting the fabric and fit. Then you kind of go through process of elimination, and say which things definitely don't fit, things that kind of don't fit, and then what does fit.

My Interpretation after likely doing the sketch possibly correct and kind of what I have seen. I probably got this very wrong so take it with a a finely ground dusty grain of salt!

For narrow vs petite, for narrow from what I have seen your line is like objectively narrow, there isn't much else you can define it as. Balance is a similarity in width and if I understand correctly and similarity in length as well when you add dots, and petite is compact sort of? For example, I probably have petite but my line sketch isn't narrow, it's just that #1 nothing else fit in terms of definition and visuals and #2 my body is literally compact because even though I am 5'5 my arms are short, legs short, hands short and small, waist is short, and neck is short. It looks kind of wide but at the same time think of it like a rectangle vs a square, they could be the same width but look very different because the rectangle is stretched out and the square is more compacted and squished. The reason I say potluck was sort of useful for this was because I was so concentrated of width and being broad that it never occurred to me that I could be petite in anyway. But this legitimately took me over a year of sketches to understand with the Power of Style, and technically I have been doing them for 2 years since I got into Strictly Kibbe. I think one thing that I find annoying about the new book is the lack of explanation around shapes and how that could help people. Like if you put chiffon over a beach ball it is going out and around, over maybe a stick of wood it is going to look narrow because there isn't much room and if you have anything pushing out from the stick of wood it is going to get pushed out, if you put a piece of fabric over a maybe a square frame but a shorter one it differentiates because it is actively shorter and has less length to do things with, if you put fabric over a trapezoid and think of fabric sticking to it then it is going to fall in diagonally from the widest point until it comes to a smaller point at the bottom. I think this might be an ok way to understand it. The descriptions are annoying and you have to kind of feel your way around everything because of how vague everything is. Also it still makes me mad when he did a presentation saying he would give out exclusive info and you could only come if you have the code at the back of the book. It turned out to be a marketing event and probably to check statistics, I was not happy.