#kitchener

[douglasdouven]

Insulators on a transmission tower reflect sunlight. Highland West, Kitchener, Ontario Canada. 25/10/26. D.e.D.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Ford government looks to pause affordable housing quotas near transit hubs in Toronto, Mississauga, Kitchener | CBC News

The province says inclusionary zoning, which allows the city to compel developers to add a percentage of affordable housing to new builds ne

Doug Ford's government is looking to pause affordable housing requirements for new residential developments near transit hubs in Toronto, Mississauga and Kitchener, saying they are deterring construction during a housing crisis. The proposed amendment would pause inclusionary zoning in the three Ontario cities where it exists until July 2027. The planning tool lets cities compel developers to rent a portion of units below market value — at 30 per cent of the household's gross income — in new builds near major transit stations. The proposal comes as Ontario has fallen behind its goal of building 1.5 million new homes across the province over 10 years, prompting Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Rob Flack to say last year it was now a "soft" target.

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[nickstanley]

Tiers

[sugar-petals]

( Long msg ahead sorry lol ) Still don't know how kibbe came up with such a genius way to type bodies , like it's insane to know someone's type without mathematical measurements , just with height ( which isn't MASSIVELY important, it's more about the perception as you say ) and how fat/muscles/bone structure are distributed and what kind of fabrics could be draped on top . And this isn't the end of it ! Truly baffling to me . Also I can confidentiality say that you , caro , are the absolute best at analyzing and finding stuff that most people miss . I always learn so much from you so thank you very much ❤😎

thank you! now, to me the genius of kibbe is: when hollywood's glamour era faded, he took the work of belle northrup + harriet mcjimsey and galvanized it into a styling method anyone can use to accept and clothe their physique. i simply think of him as the one stylist who pulled off the best marketing. his consultation prices mirror that. but the whole yin/yang concept came from belle's book on costume history.

then, mcjimsey created the 6 main types (see below), the lost ingenue type included. even in this rudimentary system with all its dangerous "looks equals personality" and "you can type by expression" faults, i can identify myself as a dramatic (being 5'9 narrows it down for me anyway, average heights have a harder time finding their ID). kibbe only took the good stuff and ran with it, he didn't invent it.

mcjimsey even had a base analysis of how our frame, curves, and muscles determined type. to an exaggerated degree, even typing by posture and gait and perceived level of elegance, etc. romantics could have violet eyes, even, probably to prove a point how dreamy they are? thankfully, kibbe removed a lot of that, though he added his own fantasy bits sometimes. still, those 6 types were pretty concise and had the names we know before david came.

gladly it's no longer some racial personality system. for mcjimsey, only the ingenue is "fair", and the dramatic is "dark, olive". i myself am severely pale, rather fitting kibbe's dramatic description of "anything goes, as long as it's extreme", better managing to gauge the concept. advances in seasonal color analysis really helped there, too. or, many of us don't fit the "type yourself by voice" schtick obviously, any type can be "flirtatious", and classics can have green eyes. the list goes on. the metamorphosis made all of this more universal. it could be less embellished, but i guess part of kibbe is the lack of science and math indeed 😅 we could use more ratios and measurements there.

he succeeded getting all the credit largely by promising everyone the same level glow-up no matter their body, arranging and diversifying belle's yin/yang idea to 13 and not 2 types. he IS baffling in how he created this complicated but often accurate categorization that is more applicable than not (i personally am much happier finally knowing and styling my own type, it worked for me - otherwise, i wouldn't talk to you about it. kibbe helps me understand why i look the way i look, so i figure it helps others, too). and it got less weirdly racist and MBTI-like nowadays, thankfully. still room to improve. we came from this:

height is important for modern kibbe, the old style relies on old hollywood roles and flair, that's where perception came in. but even mcjimsey had a height cutoff, to be a natural or dramatic you had to be at least 5'7 and i agree with it. that's just where we see vertical, globally, past the 170cm mark a person is not tiny in any relation. although, that is also a socially constructed bias. kibbe bridging subjective and objective aesthetics is the crux of the matter.

as for the missing 6th type, many people have tried to add to the system, while kibbe ironically subtracted from it, removing pure types except D and R. personally, his 80s version was perfect as it was, that's why it blew up: because it would fit all of us, and anyone could find themselves. deleting 3 whole types was a severe decision, imo. the community compensated by adding ethereal, oneiric, etc essences and mixing style systems. so far, i'd rather see a better fusion of color theory and kibbe first. new types are experimentation.

[singemall-stayallnight]

Led Zeppelin, Kitchener, Ontario, 4 November 1969.

[strutterspeaks]

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[oldshowbiz]

Snorks on Ice