Dennis Molawa, 54, is a stagehand and lighting technician at the House of Blues.
DM: I had so many of ’em, I said, man, that would be cool to have a suit made of all these bags instead of them going to waste. I didn’t know any seamstresses or anything–nobody in my family does that kind of stuff. I just got talking to Deb Pastor. She’s one of our greeting-room girls, she feeds the bands. I told her I always had a dream of using all the Crown Royal bags I’ve been saving up to have a suit made. She talked to her girlfriend [designer and musician] Sarah [Staskauskas], who’s a real good seamstress I guess.
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DM: I wore it Christmas day to my relatives’ house. I’ve worn it at Deb’s parties, two of them so far. The first one was in March, in the spring, during Lent, so I was sober. I give up drinking for Lent, usually. When I went to the party, I brought it in a suit bag. I didn’t want to wear it because I didn’t want any derelicts chasing me down the street thinking I was a giant bottle of Crown Royal.
