And finally, Graceland just wrapped up its annual Elvis Week in Memphis.

But the King's legacy lives on here in Las Vegas.

Local author and fashion historian Karen Feder has a new book offering an up close look at the clothing that helped define Elvis Presley's image.

Titled Elvis Dress to Rock, the book focuses largely on the stage costumes of his Las Vegas years and federal hopes.

Her research will offer even the most devoted Elvis fans something new.

Visit Graceland and you'll see three stories worth of Elvis Presley's costumes.

Costume, costume, costume Karen Vedder's job was to tell the story behind each one.

Graceland wanted sort of a catalog that would explain the exhibit.

The result?

This book, Elvis Dressed Rock, takes an in-depth look at more than 150 pieces of Elvis's stage, where I love the cover and.

Not only does it have texture, but there's not a picture of Elvis.

Write this, and it sort of sets the stage for the fact that this is all about Elvis's costumes, what he wore, why he wore, and the people that helped him wear, Sedar says.

Atop that list of people is Bill blue.

His first project with Elvis, the legendary 1968 comeback special broadcast on NBC.

Turns out that blue is also a southern boy, and I think that really set the foundation for a level of trust.

They both have this foundational background of, you know, growing up in small towns in the South.

And I think also due to the success of that 68 special, Elvis, just, you know, sort of said to himself, well, obviously there's something that's working here and I'm not I'm not going to screw this up.

Let's just keep going with this.

Among the fashion featured in that comeback special was a Napoleon collar, an old favorite of Elvis.

Since that, Elvis was really uncomfortable with the length of his neck.

And so when you see Elvis in that in the 50s, when he just breaks out on the stage, he's always, always got a collar flipped up because that made him feel more comfortable about camouflaging the length of his neck.

This is one of the concepts behind why the Napoleon collar maybe happened in that six days special.

The other.

The other reason is also because it was a fashionable statement in London on the Carnaby Street movement, the mod scene.

The Napoleon collar was very popular in fashion at the moment.

Also popular was the space age movement.

Better says she thinks that's what motivated blue to design Elvis's tunic suits.

The jumpsuits came after in Elvis's very first 69 show here in Vegas.

He wasn't yet wearing jumpsuits.

He was wearing what is called a tunic suit for whatever reason, the law is that that was inspired by Elvis's karate guy, the uniform he wore when he practiced karate.

In fact, it's inspired by the Space Age movement.

So that was blue dressing Elvis and something that was very fashion forward coming directly off the runways in Paris and London.

After the 69 tour, blue realized that there were some problems with how his costumes were performing on stage for Elvis, and blue suggested the jumpsuit and they tried it out.

Elvis loved the jumpsuit idea, the audience loved the jumpsuit and it just sort of took on a life of its own, and that life continues, says Fetter, whose research led her to B and K enterprises a company using Blue's original patterns to create custom Elvis costumes fit for any king.

They're able to take a design that was built for an Elvis body, and to scale it in such a way that it works for all of their custom clients.

But there's this marketplace that still is out there that is still recreating Bill Blue's work after decades and decades, and Till the End of Time will be making these jumpsuits, I imagine.

Right?

Sater is also the author of the book The Folly Their Year in Las Vegas.