Poor people were forbidden from wearing most animal furs by sumptuary laws. Cats were as high-class as you were allowed to go as a filthy poor in late medieval England. Hence the phrase “more than one way to skin a cat” - cat skinning was, indeed, a means of making money…
I’m the middle ages it was a sign of wealth and nobility if you owned a coat and boots.
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Poor people were forbidden from wearing most animal furs by sumptuary laws. Cats were as high-class as you were allowed to go as a filthy poor in late medieval England. Hence the phrase “more than one way to skin a cat” - cat skinning was, indeed, a means of making money…