Estoria Culture, Part 2

Another late post, a few less sketches... to make up for missing the "Elderly" NPC set, I'll use this opportunity to talk a little about gender roles in Estoria.
_{If you can't tell, those are "Man" and "Woman" NPCs.}
You might have noticed by now that women always wear long dresses. This is considered proper for a lady. Anything showing leg above the ankles is unheard of, and women don't need to wear pants. Pants symbolize work, and what lady does work? An upper-class woman's role is to bear their husband's child and to look pretty on his arm. I almost forgot, one more purpose is to be married off to tie families together for whatever reason.

An upper class man runs things. Some run large businesses; others run the country. Still others do a little of both. What time is not spent managing business, politics and family is spent furthering knowledge. They are men of intellect.

The middle class dresses similarly to the upper class; only a bit more plain. Men work as merchants or laborers and women are allowed jobs, too, as seamstresses, maids and the like.

The poorest citizens basically have no line between genders. They've found that women are often just as good as men at scraping by. Some poor women are seen in pants, and sometimes they're short enough to show thighs. No one really cares, though, because... they're poor.

Tomorrow: Old people and some political background.