Notes on Dressing Your Truth: Type 4

Type 4's Gift:

• Perfecting the world
• "Here's how we can make it better!"
• Downside: stall because nothing is ever good enough
• Critiques can be viewed at criticisms

Type 4's Thoughts and Feelings:

• Mentally organized
• Analyze/overanalyze
• View the world intellectually 
• Share deep feelings only in people they have let in
• Know themselves

Words that describe Type 4 energy:

• Reflective
• Bold
• Still
• Constant
• Precise
• Straightforward
• Black and white

Type 4 Personality:

• Focused, structured, linear
• Stillness - level inner quality
• Need times of solitude
• "Perfectionist" but used honorably
• Ability to focus and tune out other things
• They are the authority on their own lives
• Can be hard on themselves
• "All or nothing" nature
• Can be reserved or bold in their opinions, but generally have hard opinions on things

Type 4 Body Language:

• Poised walk
• Sit upright and can sit still for the longest of any type
• Pure and clear voices
• Speak and process literally, speak concisely
• Common words: "exactly," "perfect"
• Least likely to doodle
• Take care of their possessions - like things to be put away
• Like simplicity in their homes

Physical Features of Type 4's:

• Striking
• Symmetrical
• Smooth lines
• Elongated ovals present in face

Shopping Tendencies of Type 4 Women:

• Want to be unique
• Tend to view their own look as too boring, try to branch out
• Unnecessary to try new things as their look is essentially simple
• Trying to blend, soften, and mute their look will only age them
• Greys can age as well

Shopping and Dressing Tips for Type 4 Women:

• Bold, striking colors are flattering
• Bold jewelry, clear colors
• Black works best of all for Type 4 women
• Large pattern, high contrast
• Black and white together 
• Still fabrics, not a lot of movement
• Smooth textures
• Stripes
• Not dressing your truth makes you look/feel more heavy and frumpy

Dressing Your Truth General Notes:

How do you know which types you are? (all notes that applied to me)

• Type 1:
• Possibilities, open to change
• Bright, bubbly imagery
• Polka dots
• Type 2:
• Feeling overlooked and not receiving credit where credit is due
• Connection to memories and sentimental objects
• Worry about things "too much"
• Detail oriented
• Connect past-present-future
• Type 4:
• Deep thinker, analyze to the point of obsession
• Feel deeply but share only with those close to you
• Take time to reflect alone
• Always seeing ways to improve things
• Impossible for you to fake how you feel
• You are your own authority
• You heard "lighten up" or "you're so mature" a lot as a child
• Being loose is a chore
• Imagery - mountains, still waters, snow, architecture, moonlight, grass, high contrasting images
• Key words: clean, bold, still

The Five Essential Elements of Dressing Your Truth:

1. Design line - What shapes do I see?
2. Texture - How does it feel?
3. Fabrication - How does it fall?
4. Pattern - What level of contrast do I see? What shapes? How loud, large, busy, etc?
5. Color - Tints, tones, shades, or hues (type 4's are hues)