There is nothing lost...

Further to the Wrong Era posts, and just to show that I can be realistic, here is a quickly-thought-of list of things I would not enjoy, if I could have been born in a golden age of balls, carriages and manners:

No chocolate
No dentistry

Leeches

Bedpans
No modern 'feminine hygiene'

No underwear (lots of petticoats but nothing underneath)

No shampoo (I think that was why the bonnets!)

Drowning kittens (because no RSPCA)
Horse poo

Worst of all is the likelihood of being born a lowly servant, or poor working class, instead of upper or middle class, and putting up with all the bad stuff without any of the fun stuff. Fun stuff probably deserves a post all to itself.