Dressing the pope: Inside Rome's tailors famed for papal clothing

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Rome's Gammarelli tailors traditionally prepare the vestments for the new pope, but this time say they have not been asked by the Vatican. Store owner Lorenzo Gammarelli thinks the Vatican will choose one of the many cassocks not used from previous elections. Once Pope Francis is laid to rest, the Vatican will announce a secret conclave in which red-hatted cardinals from around the world will vote for a new pope.

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00:00And then we received communication from the Vatican

00:28and we thought that they had already arrived.

00:31So we won't do three dresses.

00:44Probably could be those of the precedents,

00:48because every time we did three dresses we used one.

00:53I'm delusi a little bit, certainly,

00:56because in the sadness of the moment

01:00due to the death of Papa Francesco

01:03there was the positive thing

01:10that we would make the vest for the new Father.

01:13We'll see you next time.

01:27We are a sartoria for ecclesiastici,

01:30for all the ecclesiastici,

01:32from the Father to the Cardinal,

01:34to the Vescoe, to the Seminarist.

01:37So in this period, for the Jubilee

01:41and for the death of Papa Francesco,

01:44many religious and priests from all over the world

01:49come to Rome and we are available.

02:01I'm done this before,

02:03by the time I've finished my home,

02:06I was born here, around 2016.

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