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>> My name is Scott Marchbanks, and I own a
corporation called Just Got Designs, Inc.,

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but our storefront is called Frills by
Scott in downtown Statesboro, Georgia.

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So I've been sewing my entire life.

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My mother and my grandmother taught
me everything I know about sewing,

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and I've been very lucky that most
recently we had some contestants

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in the Miss America pageant.

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Miss Georgia and Miss District of Columbia both
were my designs that we constructed in house.

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We've also been very fortunate
that they've been worn in Hollywood

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at some CMT awards and New York premiers.

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So I'm very blessed and very happy about that.

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Well it's one of the best
things and worst things

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about what I do now is that no 2 days are alike.

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I'm very fortunate in that most of my
days are back to back appointments.

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When I don't have appointments,
then we're working on things

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like making sure our social media is up to date.

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Probably the biggest draw we have with
locals in Statesboro is they always

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like to ride by and see our windows.

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So we constantly are trying
to change our windows.

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Managing day to day operations, I'm not
the best person in the world with tasks

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that are monotonous or things
you have to do every single day.

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So I have a fantastic team who helps
take care of some of those things,

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and without them I wouldn't have the ability
to think as creatively as I like to do.

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So that's a typical day.

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I call it, you know, a ping
pong day where you're bouncing

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around from one thing to the other.

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You do that for 8 hours straight.

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At our first consultation what I really like to
do is get a feel for the client's personality.

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To me if you don't have a costume or an outfit
or a design that matches your personality,

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then you're dead in the water to begin with, and
usually that's reflected in their music choice.

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Most of the time the costumes
that I make are for dancers,

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and so I like to listen to their music.

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If it's a song that I've heard before,
you know, I still like to listen to it,

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ask them to kind of tell me what style of
dancer they are, how showy do they want to be?

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Are they more interested in their technique?

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Are they most interested in
showmanship or a balance between the two?

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And then we kind of talk through kind of
what silhouettes they feel like looks good

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on their body and what they're comfortable in,
and then I usually will sit there with them

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and sketch out something that comes
to mind to me that reflects all

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of those qualities that we're
looking for combined.

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Is it styled correctly for the song?

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Is it designed appropriately
for their personality?

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And is the silhouette going to
match what they're comfortable in?

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From that point, I take a ton of measurements.

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I have a, you know, a form
that they have to fill out,

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and we take a lot of measurements,
and then I source some fabric.

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I'm pretty picky when it comes to that.

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The quality of materials to me has
to be top notch or either, you know,

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why bother if you're not going to use the best?

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So once we do that, I'll get a final
approval from the client, start working.

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They come in for a first fit.

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If anything needs to be tweaked or
changed, then at that point that's

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when we will make those changes to the design.

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It's a very fluid process, and once we
have the fit correct and they're happy

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with the silhouette, then we embellish it.

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You know with dance costumes a lot of
times you can imagine there's some fringe,

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there's some, you know, stoning.

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Sometimes we use lace, you know, a
lot of different types of things.