The evolution of such similar vocabulary and grammar within the Indo-European language derives from the posterity of ancestors with common languages from the move from their primitive land. ... Bentley states, "The term caste comes from the Portugese word casta, and it refers tot a social class of hereditary and usually unchangeable status" (98). ... Although, color distinctions were probably already made prior to the Caste System, the Aryan word "varna" (meaning color) created major social classes in early Vedic times. ...
Fashion were derived from an International Gothic style in the first part of the era, though became influenced by French and Burgundian areas as well. ... The economic climate brought a system of social class that related directly to the usage and quality of certain fabrics as textile production became an important theme. ... The Italian man's camicia, or shirt, was worn typically as an undergarment or, for lower class men, alone with underpants when doing hard labor. The lower class man would wear shirts made from coarse, heavy linen, while finer and softer linen shirts were worn by the...