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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Cassocks competition whose outfit will new pope wear - You Need To See This

Mancinelli hand-makes lightweight wool cassocks, sashes and zucchettos (Credit: 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.

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