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New Pope's clothes are ready

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Even before Cardinals meet in the Sistine Chapel to elect the new Pope, the family-owned Gammarelli tailor shop that has dressed Popes for two centuries has his vestments ready. It has displayed three sets of white vestments - small, medium and large - to be sent to the Vatican for the new Pope. A white silk "zucchetto," or skullcap, lay on a bed of red cloth in the window, as did a white sash with golden fringes and a pair of red leather shoes. Gammarelli, tucked behind the Pantheon in central Rome, has served scores of cardinals and popes since 1798. Pope Pius XII was an exception: he used his family tailor.

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