Friday, February 19, 2010

What a Roman Style Biretta Looks Like

From Rome's Esquiline Hill: the Roman cut biretta (the pom-pom was a Gallic innovation and thus the biretta of cardinali has no such tassel).

7 comments:

  1. and yet the decrees, papal documents, etc. regulate explicitly the color of the pompom. no bishop would use a biretta without it. careful with vestimentary revisionism.

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  2. where does one get a nice roman, non-folding biretta?

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  3. Just to to Gammarelli and they can make whatever you want.

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  4. Wippells in England make beautiful birettas

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  5. Interesting that being a Roman biretta, one cannot find them "in stock" in Rome. As the person said above, you have to go to Gammarelli and have them make you one. I have one on the way.

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  6. Wippells birettas are, I fear to say, distinctly non-Roman in shape !

    The one in the photo is also, sadly, rather higher in the centre than was really traditional in Rome.

    However; the answer to where to get one is to do as Seminarists had to do in olden days when they first arrived at the Seminary : make your own ! (Takes about two hours, and costs peanuts.)

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  7. Large stock in many sizes held by Barniconi in Rome

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