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About 60 years ago, Fioravanti said, he happened to meet two brothers named Riccardi who specialized in mending ancient pottery for Italian antique dealers. Though a tailor at the time, Fioravanti became fascinated by the business, soon had a job in the Riccardi shop. Then one day the three men got an idea: If they could mend ancient works of art, why could they not also create them from scratch...
...Basilica four new princes of the church, clad in magnificent scarlet robes, knelt last week to receive from Pope John their red hats, symbolic of their elevation to the College of Cardinals. Besides their rank and faith, the new cardinals had something else in common: the same tailor. Every stitch of their elaborate garments, from scarlet silk stockings to matching skullcap, came from Bonaventura Gammarelli, 61, the most prestigious name in the Roman Catholic cloak and soutane trade. From his small shop in the shadow of Rome's ancient Pantheon, Gammarelli sends out the robes and capes to Catholic...
...Shelley Berman's closet, a dozen $325 suits hang in a row, the right sleeve of each bent at the elbow, recalling a cocked arm holding a telephone. Short of a medieval armorer, no tailor could keep a jacket from taking on the prime characteristic of its owner, the comedian who has risen to fame by talking to imaginary people on imaginary telephones...
This is a day of custom-made faiths. Men of religious spirit who, for reasons of rationality or temperament, cannot accept orthodox religions tailor these orthodoxies to suit their personal needs and imaginations. One of the more popular forms of spiritual eclecticism, and the one chosen by the late British man of letters John Middleton Murry, is to deny the divinity of Christ and reject most Christian dogma, but to cling to Jesus Christ, the man, as a kind of supreme culture hero embodying every man's unending quest for his better self. At best noble in a pagan...
Press approval extended to the President-elect's personal life. After word got out that Kennedy bought suits tailor-made in London, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram clucked reprovingly over criticism of such practice. When Kennedy forswore golf except while on official vacations, the New York Post, which for years had been needling Republican Dwight Eisenhower for his golf, professed itself "dismayed." And the New York Times indignantly blamed the U.S. for this presidential sacrifice: "The nation might well worry its conscience over whether it has been having so much uncharitable fun with presidential golf that it has made...