This book is everything! It's so well written, it is informative, it is entertaining, it is fascinating. I loved everything about it. Ruth Goodman is sooo good. I love that she doesn't tell you "victorians did this and this, they wore that and that". Instead she writes from experience "I wore this and that kind of corsets and here are my thoughts", "I used this and that things from victorian era". She spills all the tea! I love it.