Did you know that in ancient Roman fashion, clothing colors were used to differentiate social classes?
Wearing green, red or violet clothing was synonymous with wealth and nobility, and wearing white or gray clothes was synonymous with poverty.
This was because paints were very expensive at the time and only the rich could pay for painted clothes, the poor used clothes without paint, the color only the rich could pay for painted clothes, the poor wore clothes without paint, the color of sheep's wool.