This, however, begs the question: How many coat wraps (like the one above, or even just a normal long length coat Cruella usually dons) could one get from skinning a hundred and one Dalmatian puppies? We here at Cracked simply had to investigate this very important and totally normal question, so we reached out to fashion designer and artist Elzanne Louw, because the truth is that we won’t even know where to begin making something as simple as a sack dress.
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According to Louw, the first thing to consider here is the ideal age at which one (if one were a diabolical puppy murderer) would want to skin a Dalmatian. Puppies have much softer fur than adult Dalmatians, but they only develop their spots as they grow. Spots will start showing up somewhere between week four and six, but these spots’ definition will keep developing for months after, until the dog is fully grown at around 16 to 18 months. Taking into account, then, the softness, the spots, as well as the size required to at least yield a decent amount of fur, 10 to 12 months seem to be the ideal age to damn oneself to Hell by skinning a bunch of pups named Lucky and Spotty.
Measuring is a bit tricky — what with every dog having its own size — but Louw points out that the important thing to remember is the shrinkage that’ll inevitably occur during the treatment process of the furry skins. Factoring that in (Louw says it’s a good 10%) and calculating the average size and length of a one year old Dalmatian pup, we get to a fur skin of approximately 20 x 12 inches (50 x 30cm). That’s not all that big, since a normal suit-size jacket needs 2.7 x 1.5 yards of material (250 x 140cm), and a long coat like the ones Cruella favors works out at 5 x 1.5 yards (450 x 140cm).