Boutique Chief Executive Officer, Fashion, Just Scott Designs

>> My name is Scott Marchbanks, and I own a corporation called Just Got Designs, Inc., but our storefront is called Frills by Scott in downtown Statesboro, Georgia. So I've been sewing my entire life. My mother and my grandmother taught me everything I know about sewing, and I've been very lucky that most recently we had some contestants in the Miss America pageant. Miss Georgia and Miss District of Columbia both were my designs that we constructed in house. We've also been very fortunate that they've been worn in Hollywood at some CMT awards and New York premiers. So I'm very blessed and very happy about that. Well it's one of the best things and worst things about what I do now is that no 2 days are alike. I'm very fortunate in that most of my days are back to back appointments. When I don't have appointments, then we're working on things like making sure our social media is up to date. Probably the biggest draw we have with locals in Statesboro is they always like to ride by and see our windows. So we constantly are trying to change our windows. Managing day to day operations, I'm not the best person in the world with tasks that are monotonous or things you have to do every single day. So I have a fantastic team who helps take care of some of those things, and without them I wouldn't have the ability to think as creatively as I like to do. So that's a typical day. I call it, you know, a ping pong day where you're bouncing around from one thing to the other. You do that for 8 hours straight. At our first consultation what I really like to do is get a feel for the client's personality. To me if you don't have a costume or an outfit or a design that matches your personality, then you're dead in the water to begin with, and usually that's reflected in their music choice. Most of the time the costumes that I make are for dancers, and so I like to listen to their music. If it's a song that I've heard before, you know, I still like to listen to it, ask them to kind of tell me what style of dancer they are, how showy do they want to be? Are they more interested in their technique? Are they most interested in showmanship or a balance between the two? And then we kind of talk through kind of what silhouettes they feel like looks good on their body and what they're comfortable in, and then I usually will sit there with them and sketch out something that comes to mind to me that reflects all of those qualities that we're looking for combined. Is it styled correctly for the song? Is it designed appropriately for their personality? And is the silhouette going to match what they're comfortable in? From that point, I take a ton of measurements. I have a, you know, a form that they have to fill out, and we take a lot of measurements, and then I source some fabric. I'm pretty picky when it comes to that. The quality of materials to me has to be top notch or either, you know, why bother if you're not going to use the best? So once we do that, I'll get a final approval from the client, start working. They come in for a first fit. If anything needs to be tweaked or changed, then at that point that's when we will make those changes to the design. It's a very fluid process, and once we have the fit correct and they're happy with the silhouette, then we embellish it. You know with dance costumes a lot of times you can imagine there's some fringe, there's some, you know, stoning. Sometimes we use lace, you know, a lot of different types of things.