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African American denim designer and fashion brands owner Maurice Malone speaking to students in denim class at Parson School of Design
Denim show poster for Manhattan Vintage’s Denim Edition show on September 27, 2025, featuring a model in distressed denim and layered vintage clothing, highlighting the event focused on vintage denim and workwear.
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Denim Edition: A One-Day Denim Show You’ll Want on Your Radar

Saturday, September 27, 2025
🕚 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
📍 59 Orchard Street, Lower East Side, NYC

If you’re a fan of vintage denim, creative customization, and the culture surrounding rugged American workwear, Denim Edition might be the best denim show you’ll attend this year. It’s a tightly curated, one-day-only event happening on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, hosted by the organizers of the Manhattan Vintage Show. But this isn’t your usual vintage fair—it’s all denim, all day.

Unlike broader vintage markets, Denim Edition is built specifically for people who love jeans. Whether you’re a hardcore collector, a vintage shopper hunting for that just-right fade, or someone who likes your denim with a bit of character and history, this show delivers. It brings together a small group of expert dealers, makers, and services focused solely on denim, workwear, and Americana.

One of the most exciting aspects of this show isn’t just what you can buy—it’s what you can do. All tickets include complimentary snacks, drinks, and access to free custom embroidery, live tailoring, and silkscreening. So if you pick up something great—or bring something with you—you’ll have real-time access to the people who can help you make it even better.

This kind of experience is rare, especially in New York, where fashion events often lean glossy and crowded. Denim Edition is the opposite: focused, hands-on, and built for people who care more about fabric weight and construction than hashtags and hype. It’s a place to get inspired, ask questions, and connect with people who know their stuff.

Who’s Exhibiting

The lineup features a sharp mix of vintage denim dealers, custom denim makers, and creative studios. Here’s the full list of confirmed participants:

Each brings a different point of view—some specialize in archival Levi’s and military garments, while others focus on patchwork, reconstructed denim, or limited-run pieces with their own storytelling. It’s a rare chance to see that much denim depth in one place.

Dud Denim

Ecdysis

Jac’s Gold

Junk In The Truck Brooklyn

Krop Jeans

Local Clothing

Proprietors

Sea City Vintage

Sisters Vintage

Tea Street Vintage

The Gallery of Wearable Art

Trash Closet

Tranny + Mutation

Trust Luck Vintage

Wild Wild East Vintage

Williamsburg Garment Company

A Denim Show Built for the City

For locals, especially Manhattanites who never seem to make it across the river to Brooklyn, this is a no-excuses opportunity. If you’ve been meaning to get something tailored, altered, or customized by the folks who really know how to handle heavyweight denim, Williamsburg Garment Company will be there offering in-person consultations and $30 while-you-wait chainstitch hemming. And if you’re just visiting NYC for the weekend, it’s a great way to plug into the local denim scene in one afternoon.

The location—59 Orchard Street—is walkable from the F, J, and M trains, and surrounded by classic LES energy: coffee shops, art spaces, hidden storefronts, and enough food spots to keep you moving all day. It’s the kind of show where you come for the jeans but stick around for the people and the vibe.

How to Attend

Tickets for Denim Edition are available now via the Manhattan Vintage Instagram and Eventbrite. Attendance is limited to keep the event intimate, so it’s worth locking in a spot early.

Whether you’re hunting for deadstock gold, ready to have your jeans reworked on the spot, or just want to hang out with people who speak fluent selvedge, this is the denim show you’ve been waiting for.

A 16 oz can of Abomination Brewing Company’s Forbidden Pumpkin Imperial Milkshake IPA with a spooky Halloween illustration featuring a masked figure holding a carved pumpkin, standing among a pile of pumpkins under a dark sky.

Review: Abomination Brewing Company Forbidden Pumpkin Imperial Milkshake IPA

Abomination Brewing’s Forbidden Pumpkin is an Imperial Milkshake IPA that takes pumpkin beer in a very different direction. Pouring a cloudy, milky amber with a frothy white head, the beer announces itself with aromas of citrus, vanilla, and a hint of spice. It looks inviting enough, but the first sip immediately reveals its boldest trait: sweetness. The lactose and vanilla dominate from the start, creating a creamy body that feels more like dessert in a glass than a traditional IPA.

The pumpkin and spice notes, while advertised, are hard to find. Instead, bright citrus hops and sugary milk flavors push to the forefront, leaving the cinnamon and nutmeg buried in the background. For drinkers who lean toward drier or more balanced pumpkin beers, the sugary profile may be overwhelming. Personally, I found it difficult to get through more than a quarter of the glass before the sweetness wore me down.

That said, this beer has a clear audience. Fans of milkshake IPAs or those who enjoy sweeter, dessert-style beers will find Forbidden Pumpkin to be a unique seasonal indulgence. It’s smooth, creamy, and unabashedly sweet, with enough citrus hop bite to keep it from being completely one-dimensional. While it’s not for everyone—especially those looking for pumpkin to play the starring role—it’s a creative twist on the pumpkin beer genre that could rank highly for those with a sweet tooth.

Curious how this unique pumpkin beer stacks up against more traditional offerings? Check out our [Fluid List of the Best Pumpkin Beers Ranked] to see where Forbidden Pumpkin lands.

  • Style: Pumpkin Imperial Milkshake IPA
  • ABV: 9.3%
  • IBUs: N/A
  • Seasonal: Fall (Limited Release)
  • Brewer: Abomination Brewing Company, a nomadic craft brewery known for creative and experimental releases, often brewed in collaboration with host breweries. Their beers push style boundaries, from heavily hopped IPAs to bold stouts and fruited sours, earning them a reputation for adventurous brewing and unique flavor combinations.
12-oz bottle of Elysian Great Pumpkin Imperial Pumpkin Ale on white, photographed for a denimbmc.com beer review.

Elysian Great Pumpkin Imperial Pumpkin Ale Review

With more than 100 pumpkin beers brewed since 1997, Elysian Brewing Company has earned its crown as the king of gourd-season brewing. Their Great Pumpkin Imperial Pumpkin Ale—which they proudly claim as the world’s first imperial pumpkin ale—delivers on that legacy with a brew that’s bold, balanced, and unmistakably Elysian.

The beer pours a reddish amber and opens with rich notes of cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove, riding just behind the malty backbone. What makes this one stand out is the real pumpkin presence—it’s not just spice covering up a generic ale. There’s actual squash character in here, layered into a warming, medium-to-full-bodied beer that finishes clean with just the right kick of alcohol heat. It’s spiced enough to make itself known, but not so much that it veers into pumpkin pie territory.

Elysian Great Pumpkin Imperial Pumpkin Ale poured into a glass with frothy head beside the bottle.

Elysian Great Pumpkin doesn’t feel like a gimmick or one-off novelty; it feels like a confident expression of what a pumpkin ale should taste like when brewed with intention and experience. If you’re looking for a well-crafted, flavorful pumpkin beer that doesn’t shy away from its imperial roots, this one’s a solid pick—and possibly a new seasonal favorite. Want to see where Elysian Great Pumpkin lands among the competition? Check out our [Fluid List of the Best Pumpkin Beers Ranked].

  • Style: Imperial Pumpkin Ale
  • ABV: 8.4%
  • IBUs: 0
  • Seasonal: Fall (Limited Release)
  • Brewer: Elysian Brewing Company, based in Seattle, Washington, is widely regarded as a pioneer in pumpkin beer. Since 1997, the brewery has crafted over 100 pumpkin-inspired brews and co-founded the annual Great Pumpkin Beer Festival. Known for bold experimentation and a love of seasonal ingredients, Elysian’s commitment to creative, full-flavored beer is on full display in this imperial offering.
Subway billboard at Bedford Avenue Station featuring Williamsburg Garment Company’s denim tailoring and knitwear alteration ad above the L Train entrance.
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Williamsburg Garment Co. Brings Real Denim Tailoring to Light

Even in 2025, many people still take their jeans to the dry cleaners for alterations. And most have never even considered that you can professionally hem or crop a T-shirt. We’re trying to change that.

This month, our ads began appearing across MTA subway entrances along the L Train, including key locations in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Manhattan. It marks the start of a long-overdue public education campaign—not just for our brand, but for the concept of denim tailoring itself.

Most people simply don’t realize that tailoring jeans or knitwear is a specialized service. It’s not something every tailor does well, and it requires more than a sewing machine and thread. The right tools, machines, and knowledge matter. And unless you’ve spent time in the industry—or been burned by a bad alteration—you probably haven’t had a reason to think about it. Until now.


The Problem With Traditional Tailoring

Let’s start with jeans. When someone walks into a generic tailor and asks to take in the waist, two things usually happen: they either get visible darts along the back waistband or a mismatched seat seam that doesn’t look anything like the original construction.

Exterior view of jeans waistband showing a darted seam from a poorly executed waist alteration
Interior photo of a Levi’s jeans waistband showing poor tailoring with visible darts sewn into the seat area. This method is commonly used by traditional tailors who lack the correct equipment or knowledge for professional denim tailoring.
Inside view of jeans waistband showing bad tailoring with darts added to take in the waist
Interior photo of a Levi’s jeans waistband showing poor tailoring with visible darts sewn into the seat area. This method is commonly used by traditional tailors who lack the correct equipment or knowledge for professional denim tailoring.
How to take in jeans at the waist professionally using industrial feed-off-the-arm chainstitch machines. The image shows cutting, sewing, and a clean inside finish before and after without darts.
This photo demonstrates the steps involved in how to take in jeans at the waist professionally. The main image shows the seat seam being closed up using an industrial feed-off-the-arm chainstitch machine after trimming the waist from the inseam. In the top left, the tailor is shown cutting away excess fabric along the seam. The inset image in the upper right reveals the inside view of the final clean-finished result, completed without the use of darts, replicating a factory-style construction.

Some tailors try to mimic our method—removing excess fabric from the center back seat seam—but they don’t have the right equipment to finish the job correctly. Most jeans are sewn with a flat-felled, double-needle chainstitched seam that requires industrial machinery. At Williamsburg Garment Company, we use the same types of machines that denim factories do. Why? Because we make jeans—not just repair them—and we rebuild every altered section to factory specs.

The same applies to hemming. One of the more common gimmicks we see is the so-called “original hem” reattachment. Tailors cut the hem off, shorten the legs, and stitch the original hem piece back on. It creates an awkward, unnecessary seam above the hemline—and exists only because they can’t sew cleanly through multiple layers of denim.

What most people don’t realize is this: the wear, twist, and fade of the original hem naturally returns after one or two washes. With the right thread, tension, and stitch, the new hem will age just like the original—without tricks.


T-Shirts Are No Different

An example of Williamsburg Garment Company's professional t-shirt hemming service on a green cropped t-shirt shows the coverstitched sewing and shortened lower half of the cut-away part of the tee for before and after review.
Before and after view of a men’s green t-shirt customized into a women’s cropped t-shirt. The original hem is visible beside the cropped version, highlighting the factory-level coverstitch sewing on the inside of the garment.

If you’ve ever had a T-shirt hem curl, stiffen, or lose stretch after a tailoring job, chances are it was sewn with the wrong machine. Most shops don’t have a coverstitch machine—the industrial standard for hemming knits.

That’s why T-shirt hemming is part of our campaign too. Because tailoring knitwear also requires precision equipment. A proper hem on a tee should stretch, flex, and sit flat—just like it did before. And that takes the right tools.


Tailoring That’s Built for the Way People Live Now

The other part of this campaign is accessibility. People often ask, “Do I have to be in New York to use your services?” The answer is no. You don’t even have to leave home.

We’ve built our system so anyone in the U.S. can get professional denim and knitwear tailoring.

  • You order online
  • Using 2-way shipping, we email you a shipping label
  • You send your garments to us
  • We tailor them and ship them back

We like to say: if you can order a pizza online, you can order tailoring services from us. Just like choosing your toppings, crust style, and sides, our ordering pages walk you through clear dropdown menus to select exactly what you need—whether it’s hemming, tapering, waistband adjustments, or more.

And if you come across a term you’re unfamiliar with—like “inseam type” or “bar tack”—there’s likely a link right there to a help article, video, or visual example that breaks it down. We’ve built our platform to be intuitive, but we also understand that not everyone speaks denim. That’s why the information is always within reach.

Still have questions? Call us during business hours and you’ll speak to a real person—not an automated phone maze, robo-operator, or AI gatekeeper. Just denim people who know exactly what you’re talking about—and what your jeans need.


Putting Denim Tailoring Where People Can See It

These subway ads are the first step in a year-long marketing effort to bring denim tailoring out of the shadows. Until now, most people have either accepted poor alterations—or never even knew there was a better option.

So if you’re walking past the Bedford Avenue Station or through Manhattan along the L line, and you spot our billboard, know that it’s more than an ad. It’s a message:
There’s a better way to tailor jeans.
There’s a better way to crop your tees.
And you don’t need to be in New York to get it done right.

A 12oz can of Southern Tier Raspberry Shine Summer Wheat Ale, photographed for a blog review on its aroma, flavor, and overall drinking experience.

Review of Raspberry Shine Summer Wheat Ale by Southern Tier

Southern Tier’s Raspberry Shine Summer Wheat Ale greets you with a pleasant aroma of fresh raspberries, setting an inviting tone. Each sip provides mild raspberry flavor, slightly reminiscent of candy but without becoming overly sweet or artificial. Although there’s a touch of syrupiness, it doesn’t dominate or weigh the beer down.

The ale finds balance between vibrant raspberry notes and its wheat malt base, making it a nice choice for relaxed summer sipping. Its subtle bitterness in the finish is noticeable but mild enough not to distract from the fruity profile, even though it prevents the beer from being as crisp and refreshing as some may prefer.

Overall, Raspberry Shine offers an easy-drinking experience, best suited for those who appreciate fruity wheat beers on a hot day. While it might not top my favorites list, it’s certainly enjoyable and worth trying if raspberries are your thing.

  • Style: Summer Wheat Ale
  • ABV: 4.6%
  • IBUs: N/A
  • Seasonal: Summer (limited release)
  • Brewer: Southern Tier Brewing Company, founded in 2002 in Lakewood, New York, is known for its wide range of innovative ales and lagers, including seasonal specialties and experimental releases. The brewery takes pride in balancing bold flavors with approachable drinkability, offering beers that appeal to both craft enthusiasts and casual drinkers.
12oz bottle of Abita Strawberry Lager with a red label featuring strawberries, brewed with real Louisiana strawberries.

Abita Strawberry Lager Review

I first tried Abita Brewing Company’s Strawberry Lager years ago and thought it was just okay. At the time, I even liked another strawberry beer more. But beer can change over time, so I decided to give it another shot. I’m glad I did—this one is much better than I remember.

Brewed with juicy, ripe Louisiana strawberries picked at their peak, this crisp lager immediately hits you with the aroma of real strawberry as soon as it’s poured. The flavor is sweet but balanced, with enough strawberry to stand out while still letting the light gold lager, made with pilsner and wheat malts and Tradition hops, shine through. There’s no artificial aftertaste—just a clean, refreshing finish that makes it easy to go back for another sip.

One of the best things about Abita Strawberry Lager is that it’s available year-round. That means whether it’s the middle of summer or the dead of winter, you can enjoy its bright fruit character and crisp, easy-drinking nature anytime. If you’re looking for a fruit beer that actually tastes like fresh fruit and is refreshing from start to finish, this one’s worth picking up.

  • Style: Fruit Lager
  • ABV: 4.2 %
  • IBUs: 13
  • Seasonal: Year-round
  • Brewer: Abita Brewing Company, located in Abita Springs, Louisiana, crafts its beers using pristine artesian water drawn from deep local wells. Known for producing full-flavored, easy-drinking ales and lagers, the brewery also makes small-batch sodas, root beer, and hop water—all brewed to reflect the Louisiana way of life.









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