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Few things beat a great cup of freshly roasted coffee and a pair of American handcrafted jeans. Well, now you can have the best of both worlds; coffee and denim. Maybe you're a self-proclaimed "coffe …

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"Help! A tailor butchered my jeans," are words often expressed to us from those with coveted selvedge jeans who put their faith in traditional tailors and local dry cleaners. "Can they be fixed," t …

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It seems needless to say, selvedge jeans should always be tapered from the inseam. However, some people still take jeans to local tailors or dry cleaners, who are not equipped with proper denim sewing …

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During the summer of 2019, we crafted a pair of selvedge bespoke denim work pants, especially custom made for one of our top customers. Using one of his favorite old twill work pants as a style gui …

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What is chain stitching?Chain stitching is a type of stitch produced by a sewing or embroidery machine. The name chain stitch comes from its looped chain-link-like appearance. In sewing, a chain stitc …

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Original hem, what is it? And, why you should stay away from this alteration. You like the washed or worn edge on the hem of your jeans but your jeans are too long and require hemming alteration …

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You love work pants but wish they came with a modern fit for casual wearing. Here we explain the step-by-step process that went into tapering a pair of triple-needle flat-felled chain-stitched inseam …

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The black raw denim shirt is a thing a beauty, handmade inside our Williamsburg Brooklyn store. Each piece is cut and sewn by the company's owner and designer. After completion, the garment is autogra …

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At Williamsburg Garment Co., we fix a lot of tailor's and do-it-yourself home sewing hemming mistakes because most people don't realize there is a clear-visible quality difference between denim sewn o …

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The best way to screw-up a nice pair of jeans: do-it-yourself sewingThere are multitudes of reasons why people have jeans tapered. I remember as a kid in high school before I knew how to se …

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Although we don’t have a PR staff, representative, or spend lots of advertising dollars with major media outlets, which does help to gain favor appearing in articles, those who invest time and effort …

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When smaller and mid-sized denim brands manufacture jeans, they try to cover a wide range of customers by producing the jeans as long as 34 to 36 inches. For those who have to shorten jeans or pants …

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