In fact, democracy has complicated the problem seriously.
Under the old regime costumes had been worked out for the various classes.

They were adapted both to the purse and to the pursuit.

They were fitting--that is, silk was not worn in huts or homespun in palaces; slippers were for carriages and _sabots_ for streets.

The garments of a class were founded on good sound principles on the whole--but they marked the class.

Democracy sought to destroy outward distinctions.