Meet the Roman tailors behind the pope's first look

How pope's authoritative attire is chosen

These tailoring businesses eagerly await caller pope to spot if their papal garments are chosen 04:06

As the papal conclave ends with the emergence of achromatic fume from the Sistine Chapel to signify the enactment of a caller pope, tailors are creating the papal vestments — the pope's authoritative attire.

For centuries, papal garments person been crafted on Rome's cobblestone streets adjacent the Vatican, wherever skilled artisans support traditions dating backmost generations.

Raniero Mancinelli, whose store opened successful the 1960s conscionable steps from the Vatican, has prepared 3 cassocks successful antithetic sizes for the caller pontiff.

"Tres size... Small medium, large," the 86-year-old told CBS News done a translator. "You don't cognize if the adjacent Pope is going to beryllium small, mean oregon large."

Raniero Mancinelli, who has crafted garments for 3 popes from his tiny store adjacent the Vatican, has prepared cassocks successful small, medium, and large. CBS News

Having worked with 3 popes: John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis, Mancinelli hopes to adhd a 4th to his prestigious lawsuit list. 

When asked which pope was his favorite, Mancinelli laughed and responded successful Italian, "Secreto."

The Gammarelli household represents the different salient papal tailoring establishment. Their business, present successful its sixth procreation and led by Alessia Gammarelli, the family's archetypal pistillate proprietor, has served 8 popes implicit their 200-year history.

The pope's basal garment is simply a hand-stitched, achromatic wool cassock, sometimes adorned with a burgundy, elbow-length cape — a diagnostic Pope Francis chose not to wear. The outfit is completed with a achromatic skullcap called a zucchetto.

When questioned astir aboriginal papal benignant preferences, Gammarelli said, "I don't know. Good question."

While Gammarelli has seen images of papal vestments hanging wrong the Vatican's Room of Tears, she said she can't corroborate they're her family's enactment until the caller pope makes his archetypal nationalist appearance.

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