Cassocks Competition: Whose Outfit Will New Pope Wear?

Source: International Business Times

Mancinelli hand-makes lightweight wool cassocks, sashes and zucchettos AFP For decades, one Rome tailor has been making the white cassock new popes don immediately after election -- but this conclave it has competition. The Gammarelli tailors traditionally prepares three outfits -- short, medium and tall -- to fit new pontiffs whatever their size but say this time the Vatican has asked them not to. With just hours to go before cardinals are locked into the Sistine Chapel to elect Pope Francis's successor, rival tailor Raniero Mancinelli is taking the chance to offer his own set.