since the changes in society (reforms) were not happening fast enough to assist the poor, this becomes one of the key features of the new society due to suffering from bread prices, food shortages and lack of action all whilst living in Paris which was under threat from foreign powers. When it became dangerous to be associated with anything counter revolutionary, people including even upper-middle class backgrounds adopted the clothing and label of the Sans Culottes, as a demonstration of the solidarity with the working class and patriotism for the new French Republic. Their political ideologies often clashed with the established French authorities in the late eighteenth century, causing the middle and upper classes to view the sans-culottes
