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[music changes to sewing sound]
>> No, he's a showman.
I'm just give him the glitz so
he can become that showman he
wants to be.
[sewing machine whirring�
I'm the seamstress I guess.
I've been doing it now for,
what, 22, 23 years.
Mike announced that he needed a
seamstress for the band uniforms
if the hems needed to be raised
and lowered.
The following spring he came to
me and he said, well, he needed
a new sequined vest or jacket
or something.
I said, oh, wait a minute now.
I've never worked with sequins.
I don't know if I can do it.
He said, ah, nuts, you can do
it.
It was very nerve-wracking.
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He says, well, this looked good.
This is what I wanted.
He says, I've got some ideas,
you know, for some more.
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It's just amazing.
I mean, I can't believe it that
I made that, and everybody's
seeing this.
It's got to be shiny, the
glitzier, the better.
I usually have my picture taken
with him.
It's kind of neat to incorporate
another color for a change.
It gets, you know--
You've gotta stop and think and
be ingenious as to just working
with the two colors, and come up
with something different every
year.
I basically work with the same
pattern.
It's just with different
embellishments, the different
fabrics, the different colors
and stuff.
The hardest part is sometimes
finding the fabrics he wants, or
the embellishments we talk about
that he wants.
I wait for it every year.
In the summertime he likes to go
to Las Vegas.
He gets ideas from there too.
You know, trying to think up new
things every time when you're
only working with two colors is
hard.
Either he brings a program back
or he takes a picture of it.
This year he wanted glass cubes
and squares on it.
He went to a show that had the
impersonators of different
well-known singers.
One of them was Elvis Presley.
This is the item, right here,
this outfit here.
Of course, I can't use yellow
because it's not the Badger
colors.
I'm going to do it white on
white.
This takes time.
I'm still going to take the
sequins out of the seam
allowances.
If I don't, when I try to sew
this together now, I'll be
breaking needles.
For months later I'll find
sequins all over t house.
Then I permanently sew the seams
up.
Then I sit there for hours on
end, and one by one, sew the
sequins back into those areas
where too much was taken out of
the seam allowances.
I want it just right, because I
know everybody's looking at it.
I don't know if they really
would see in, you know, on stage
as far back as everybody else
is, but I know it's there.
It can be anywhere from about 80
to 100 hours for a costume.
That's great.
That filled in very nicely.
Yeah.
It goes around his neck, and of
course it'll be seamed in, and
it'll come around down here.
I go down the week of the
concert then, and I fit it with
Mike.
Hey, Mike!
>> How are you, Lois?
>> I'm doing good.
I've got some goodies for ya
again.
Did you want some glitz down the
leg again?
You wanted mirrors.
I found these.
They're crystallized buttons.
That little bling once in a
while when the camera hit it, so
you've got a little extra
sparkle, okay?
Nothing like a little extra
sparkle.
>> Yeah, you don't have enough
yet, do ya?
>> I made a little deference to
age.
Now, this is subtle.
>> Oh, there's probably about 20
to 25 hours left.
Sleepless nights to get it done
and stuff, at the last minute.
[band playing the James Bond
theme]
It just kind of takes my breath
away.
You know, the first couple of
minutes, until I get used to
that it's on stage.
It just stands out there amongst
all that sea of red, you know,
with his glitzy outfits on.
* Where else
* Can you see an old man
* Wearing sequined clothes?
>> It's fun to see it when it's
all done and it finally goes
together.
>> We'll see you real soon.
And On Wisconsin.
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