The clothes design are at least stellar so there's that if you're into fashion

... Last updated on July 4th, 2023, 10:58am

good work!

even my limited knowledge of historical fashion can poke holes in a lot of the plot. corsets weren’t some horrible tool by men to oppress women, they were more like an earlier form of bra, they just got dragged later because men like to hate on fashion because it was a women’s space and one of the ways they could gain power

ANYWAY

because the author doesn’t know much and has done no research, all of the protagonist’s ~revolutionary fashion ideas~ come off as boring and contrived. while having future knowledge of clothing technology could be helpful, that doesn’t help with understanding or initiating trends. a medieval person isn’t gonna see a more modern dress and immediately think it’s better because it’s “modern and convenient” theyre probably gonna think it’s weird and ugly. also the order in which she invents things makes no sense.

there’s an entire plot that’s resolved because she invents a zipper, thereby resolving the fact that it takes servants hours to get dressed in old fashioned attire and like lol wtf?? no, old rich people were wearing clothes that took forever to get on, servants dressed for convenience this is utter nonsense. clothes were optimized for convenience before the invention of the zipper this is ridiculous if people had to spend hours getting dressed we would still be in mud huts i can’t even.

regarding the art, it’s not bad it’s ok, but given that this is a webtoon that focuses on clothes so heavily the art kind of needs to be amazing for all of the in universe clothing porn to be enjoyable, and it’s just not

other complaints:
- made a medieval society with sexism but it’s not well thought out so all the bigotry comes off heavy handedly and it’s both boring and frustrating to read about; also the protag being well liked by women because she’s such a progressive man when she’s only like this because she’s actually a woman comes off lazy
- protag is from modern korea and has a ton of technological ass pulls and modern slang that she makes zero effort to hide and no one questions
- there’s some plot reasons on how the queen and her step brother both don’t want to get married, and they both have good reasons, but for some reason the queen who hates it that everyone is trying to force her to get married goes around and tries to force her brother to get married, and the plot and characters do not call her out on this hypocrisy it’s fucking infuriating

the second male lead gets dragged a lot for no good reason, yuri’s logic for why she can never view him as a love interest is because she was raised by him and resents that he forced her to go about as a man for her career. the being raised by him is dumb logic since she also goes around asserting that she’s mentally 50, the age gap thing is an ok thing for her to be skeeved out by since from his perspective she’s barely 20 and he’s known her since she was 13, but again with the author’s hypocrisy because we have our mentally 50 protag lusting after the 26yo male lead so....

the resentment COULD be interesting, but the author fucked this up by having him behave pretty nicely all the time and the only reason we have to think he’s not great is the protag’s inner monologue. by telling instead of showing, it’s left a feeling of dissonance between the character we’re presented and the protagonist’s feelings on him, so understandably readers in the comments are often upset at the protag and the author for treating him unfairly. imo he’s barely there and kind of bland (like this whole comic tbh), but i do think the writing around him is bad and unfair, and as a reader I hate being told how to feel about something in a story that contradicts what is actually there, it’s like the author is asserting that what they intend the readers to think or feel about their work automatically supplants what they actual feel, because they’re the author and we should know better, it’s patronizing and insulting

... Last updated on March 7th, 2024, 4:04am

LoADS BETTER THAN SO MANY OTHER SUB-PAR WORKS

I love this webtoon so much its so well written and so realistic.

I love the instilment of aspects of modern-day 'feminism' and empowerment. Ive always loved the introduction of new practices to other worlds and this one does it well.

This webtoon also does a really good job of eliciting the proper emotional reactions.

A super enjoyable read! highly recommend!



My only grievance...

I enjoyed the story! The art's great, the characters have their reasons and all, and Yuri is a very mature MC. You might get a bit frustrated at the event in the beginning, but it gets better, and you start to understand why it's such a big deal. It surprisingly deals with a lot of more serious topics, mostly concerning patriarchy and women's rights of the time. I personally don't think Yuri and the Duke are a good match... but I'll continuing reading regardless (there isn't a lot of romance either way).

[as of chapter 43]

... Last updated on February 19th, 2021, 7:20pm

So everyone is incompetent, the Queen abuses her power, blackmails and extorts.

Spoilers for a serious story event bellow.

Until the responsible are fired and the Queen lowers her head in shame I will not feel any justice.

... Last updated on October 7th, 2020, 10:56pm

If you come here for romance, please go back as this is a story of career women!!
I think the career path of MC look pretty realistic. The author description of how her revolution of fashion and cloth effect on society look pretty real to me. The romance is side line but it is pretty cute. I ship her to the duke Ennon~ But she is disguise as a guy so there will be some drama with this.

I read up to 25 chapters. It still early so the romance probably not even begin yet.

... Last updated on August 16th, 2020, 8:48pm