DAN WERNERY

Enjoyable, but still needs research

Revisado: 06-26-21

The author of this book has a lot of great research and insights into this period. However there are still some areas where he is drawing from debunked sources. The area this is the most glaring at is when he discusses women’s fashion in the 19 century. I spent most of this chapter cringing over all the blatant miss information and out right lies that was presented.He presents the long misconception that tight lacing was a thing all women did and that women’s clothing was restrictive and uncomfortable. While a lot of women do suffer for fashion even today it is extremely stupid to think that every woman in the world wear uncomfortable clothing all the time when they did everything from work to leisure. Tight lacing was not a real thing except with perhaps 1% of the female population who spent all their days doing nothing.For god sake’s I am so sick of hearing all this fake medical information about the dangers of women’s corsets and clothing from this time that have been proven to be false. Not to mention his descriptions of women’s clothing are comical at best. I was all set to give this book 5 stars until this chapter came up. I will not in good faith give a five star rating to a book that contains blatant miss information and lies. One last thing most of the misinformation about corsets in the 19th century was made by men who wanted to discredit an industry that was predominantly made up of women, or was satire.
Poorly done.

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