The tailors who dress the Pope sell their cardinal-red and papal-white merino socks out of a small shop on Via di Santa Chiara. 25 euros. Mid-calf, Italian merino, the color slightly off from anything in a department store. Hemingway wore them. A small, quietly absurd pleasure.
GAMMARELLI POPE SOCKS — HOSIERY Gammarelli, Rome, since 1798
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HEATH CERAMICS COUPE — DINNERWARE Heath Ceramics, Sausalito, since 1948
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