expressing your truth blog: Yin & Yang

Friday, April 18, 2014

Yin & Yang

Yin & Yang can be applied to the types and fashion in two ways or levels. The first involves color types and the second involves style categories.

The four seasons or types are breaking color categories into levels of yin and yang, sometimes referred to as active yin, quiet yin, dignified yang and active yang. This translates also to Type 1 being yang yin, Type 2 being double yin, Type 3 being double yang, and Type 4 being yin yang.

Then possible design lines indicated by levels of yin and yang are categorized by various authors.

McJimsey & Northrup	vivacious youthful	dainty demure	reserved mature	dramatic striking	7 yin yang style types
	active yin	quiet yin	dignified yang	active yang

David Kibbe	vibrant	dusty	rich	contrast	13 yin yang style types
	spring	summer	autumn	winter	13 yin yang style types

John	lively	subtle	earthy	striking	7 yin yang
Kitchener	bright	blended	rich	contrast	style types

David Zyla	spring	summer	autumn	winter	6 style types
					per season

Carol Tuttle	Type 1	Type 2	Type 3	Type 4
	Yang Yin	Yin Yin	Yang Yang	Yin Yang

Belle Northrup's style archetypes include:
(from most Yang) Dramatic/Theatrical, Natural/Relaxed, Exuberant/Lively, Classical/Traditional, Romantic/Sensual, Youthful/Playful, and Ethereal/Angelic (to most Yin).

These are the same as used by John Kitchener.

David Kibbe's style types:

Kibbe The Classics soft or dramatic

Kibbe The Naturals soft or flamboyant

Kibbe The Gamines soft or flamboyant

Kibbe The Dramatics soft or classic

Kibbe The Romantics theatrical

Kentner

Sanguine (high energy, Yang) Spring (T1) energetic overflow of energy
Phlegmatic (slow, Yin) Summer (T2) lowest blood flow energy
Choleric (powerful, Yang) Autumn (T3) most volatile flow of energy

Melancholic (reserved, Yin) Winter (T4) slightly higher energy

Zyla see below

McJIMSEY on Yin Yang

Art and Fashion in Clothing Selection
by McJimsey, c) 1973

Yin and Yang contrasts by McJimsey

SHAPES and personalities
Generally people use the S-curve or oval for Summer and either rectangle or asymmetrical triangle for Autumn, but the Spring and Winter shapes vary by author. But the idea of correlating them has obviously been around a long time.

BOLD (square) left, DRAMATIC (triangle) right

CLASSIC (circle) left, ROMANTIC (tear drop) right

INGENUE left, GAMIN right

McJIMSEY/NORTHRUP

Harriet McJimsey (and Belle Northrup's) style archetypes include: (Most Yang) Dramatic/Theatrical, Natural/Relaxed, Exuberant/Lively, Classical/Traditional, Romantic/Sensual, Youthful/Playful, and Ethereal/Angelic (Most Yin).

Most Yang:

Intermediate:

Most Yin:

HEIGHT is one aspect of moving from yin to yang.

Pflaumer reports the heights according to McJimsey/Northrup associated with style archetypes in Shopping for the Real You.









YIN	Under 5'3” Exuberant/ Lively	Under 5'4” Youthful/ Playful	5'3-7” Ethereal/ Angelic	5'4-7” Classic/ Traditional Romantic/ Sensual	5'5-7” Natural/ Relaxed	Above 5'7” Dramatic/ Theatrical	YANG

KENTNER

Yin and Yang
by Bernice Kentner
(it comes on cd)
It actually has quite a bit of Chinese Face Reading in it, combined with Seasons and facial features.

face shapes:
spring=triangular, oblong, summer=square, round , autumn=square , winter=oblong
totally different

IMPORTANT, do not try to fi nd a person’s color type
(Season) from the shape of the face or the features! When
the Color Analysis is over and Body Typing begins we
may use the Yin and Yang designations to help us suggest
the clothing lines an individual needs.

Phlegmatic (slow, Yin) Summer (T2) lowest blood flow energy
Melancholic (reserved, Yin) Winter (T4) slightly higher energy
Sanguine (high energy, Yang) Spring (T1) energetic overflow of energy
Choleric (powerful, Yang) Autumn (T3) most volatile flow of energy

Zyla