In the Medieval French tale of Cinderella, her slippers were not "verre" but "vair" -- fur slippers, such as were worn in Medieval Europe.
Originally, the only types of fur worn in that day were ermine and vair. The white fur with the black spots lining cloaks of kings and noblemen? Ermine. Vair was made from squirrel pelts stitched together to
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