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If you're in Rome for a bit of shopping, the best place is Via Condotti, right in front of the Spanish Steps.
But if you are a member of the clergy, the place to go is a small shop located in a small square near the Pantheon: Gammarelli.
The Gammarelli family has provided ecclesiastical vestments for the Vatican since 1798.
They were the personal tailors of Pope Francis, as well as his predecessors.
Everything in this shop is handmade and the shelves are heavy with rolls of fine silk damask.
It is not surprising that Pope Francis preferred to dress more simply, as Lorenzo Gammarelli told me: “ Pope Francis was one of the simplest clients we have ever had. He never asked for anything special. He just wanted simple white cassocks. There was a big difference between Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI, because Benedict liked to wear all the full vestments of a Pope, including the red ‘mozzetta’ – a short cape reaching down to the elbow .”
A Pope's wardrobe is not static. The colors of the season are not dictated by Milan Fashion Week, but by the Catholic Liturgical Calendar.
A green jacket, the colorful cloak worn over the cassock, is for normal Sunday mass.
Purple is for the period of Advent and Lent.
Red is for Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter.
Priests come from all over the world to shop here, but the Pope was the only customer Gammarellis would personally visit at the Vatican.
The storefront is bare, except for a single white skull cap and a figurine of a Swiss guard.
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