While the style and textiles worn by different classes did vary over the Spanish colonial period, this was due to fashion, wealth, and class distinction, rather than law. Most commoners throughout the colonial period wore baro made from cheaper and more durable opaque textiles, while expensive "nipis" fabrics were worn mostly by the upper classes. Natives ("indios" descended from precolonial nobility) and "mestizos" (both "mestizos de Español" and "mestizos de sangley") were also part of the aristocratic upper classes ("principalia") and it wasn't restricted to Europeans.