(30)” Members of the third estate began to adopt the materials worn by the nobles. “Fashion must be conceptualized as a tool for equal conditions. It upset the principle of inequality in clothing…” (31) Once fashion spread to the middle and lower classes, it upset the class distinctions it was supposed to define; it generated social ambiguity and allowed citizens to violate the natural order. The role of fashion changed between the 14th and 19th centuries. In the fourteenth century there were styles based on gender: tight for men and long and tight for women.(20) Then there was a gradual change in tastes and novelties. Women's fashion has gone from one type of dress to different dresses depending on the time of day. There were a variety of fabrics and laces, and then there were dresses of different lengths. Sensitivity to fashion trends was clearly rooted in the genre; women fell prey to the fashion and then exposed their husbands and sons.