Sensitivity to fashion trends was clearly rooted in gender; women fell prey to the fashion and then exposed their husbands and sons. Fashion in the early centuries was not just for the rich, but it was clear that fashion was feminine. “Fashion had become a female art”. (74) Lipovetsky believed that fashion was a privileged way to express the uniqueness of individuals. He argues that the introduction of fashion to the lower classes led to democracy by “strengthening the awareness of belonging to a single political and cultural community”. (33) Fashion profoundly supported individualism by encouraging the bourgeoisie to overthrow the existing regime system and uphold equality in their social and political systems. According to Lipovestky, “As an institution, fashion registers the rigid barriers of class stratification and class ideal within its own order; at the same time, it is an institution in which individuals can exercise their freedom and their critical faculties”. (32) Furthermore, the emergence of fashion has contributed to the emergence of authentic expression and compliant dress