For generations the tailors, whose shop was founded in 1798, have prepared three white cassocks -- tall, medium or small -- to fit new pontiffs whatever their size.

Rome's Gammarelli tailors traditionally prepare the vestments for the new pope -- but say this time the Vatican will use cassocks from previous elections, in what may be a homage to the ...

For generations the tailors, whose shop was founded in 1798, have prepared three white cassocks — tall, medium or small — to fit new pontiffs whatever their size. The new pope hurriedly dons the ...