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  • ’60s Icons: Muses to Inspire Your Style and Art

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I will discuss five of the most iconic women of the 1960s who inspire my personal style and art.   I had to narrow down this list, as I could go on forever, and the original version had eleven 60s icons,…

  • Kitchener Style Essences and ‘Goddesses in Everywoman’ Archetypes

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.    Today’s blog post is an exploration of how we can relate the Kitchener Style Essences to the Goddesses in Everywoman Personality Archetypes as discussed by Jean Shinoda Bolen!   I will begin this exploration with the most Yang of the Kitchener Essences and work my…

  • Ethereal Essence, Fully Embracing the Otherworldly

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is another one about personal style and embracing my Kitchener Essence.   In particular, I want to discuss not only fully embracing my Ethereal Essence, but also why my primary essence relates to my lifestyle in unique ways. Some people may feel that…

  • Developing a Personal Signature Style Based on Your Essence and Interests

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.    Today’s post is about how to develop a style that is unique to you, suited to your interests, and the overall essence that you exude to others!   It is important to consider your own passions, your overall vibe that others perceive, and your own…

  • Kibbe Romantic, Theatrical Romantic, and Soft Gamine

    For today’s post, I will be doing a companion piece to yesterday’s essence post.   I have been studying Kibbe’s image identities as they apply to my style of dressing for the last few years.   David Kibbe developed his system in the 1980s, writing the book Metamorphosis based on this Yin and Yang-based system.…

  • Ethereal Essence, Mixed with Ingenue and Romantic

    For this post, I have decided to discuss my essence traits that impact the way I dress.   These essence traits are part of style theory.    Essences were developed by John Kitchener whom he built upon McJimsey’s original style archetypes based on Yin and Yang features, adding in Ethereal as the most Yin and…