This book is so much fun. It's also HUGE and I had to read it at a table or propped on a pillow because it's super heavy. But that's because it's full of gorgeous giant photographs, which really let you see the detail on so many of the outfits. Part memoir, part archive recounting, and part fashion history, I think it did a great job mixing photos and anecdotes. 

The very few bits where it talks about her figure and how she may choose to modify it for clothes were the only awkward parts, because it sort of alludes to the corsetry required but doesn't talk much about beauty standards or more surgical modifications. Which makes sense, because it's about the clothes and not about her body in that way, and also she shouldn't have to talk about that stuff if she's not inclined. But I feel like the text  kept calling attention to her proportions only to then cut away abruptly from that conversation, and it was the one kind of off-key part of the read for me. 

Would still highly recommend if you have any interest in fashion at all, because the photographs are just so amazing and the whole book is a beautiful time capsule.