![]() If they have what you want, you'll get it at a reasonable, but generally not fantastic, discount. Made in USA.If you're looking for a specific item, or a particular kind of item (rain gear for example), my strategy would be to stop at the Bean's outlet store in Freeport (it's less than a block down the hill from the flagship store and right upstairs from the free parking garage). They sell well-made, 100% cotton oxford shirts. If I went in there now, they would think I am some kind of degenerate attempting to ogle at their advertising photos of mostly naked kids that even Hugh Hefner would consider indecent exploitation). A long time ago, a guy like me could walk in to an Abercrombie & Fitch store and be considered a valuable customer. (The funny thing is that I started shopping for oxford shirts at LL Bean because Abercrombie & Fitch decided they wanted to start targeting their merchandise to the high school crowd. Unfortunately, LL Bean decided to start making all their shirts “wrinkle-free”. I think I bought them about 5-6 years ago. In fact I still were a couple of them on a regular basis. They made an oxford shirt that was perfect for me. It is open! You can shop there when you come back for Xmas!! You will be very excited to learn that there is now a L.L. I’m just too square to be a hipster, too old to be a millennial, and haven’t lived here long enough to be a Mainer. “If they don’t, I can always resell them to some over-privileged millennial in New York.” She picked a pair for herself, a pair for her sister and a men’s pair for her husband, guessing they might fit. Suddenly, there were Bean boots all over the floor. At worst, you could sell them on-line and make $100 easy.” If you can get a pair for $25 you gotta take them. ![]() ![]() “I’ve worn them so much I had to get them resoled. “I’ve had a pair of these boots since I was a kid,” she said. She said her name was Sarah and she lived in Machias, Maine. “Why are you giving me the hard sell? How do I know you’re not here on your day off from the outlet store?” “You sure know a lot about Bean Boots.” I said. I don’t think she was a hipster (there really aren’t many hipsters in Ellsworth, Maine), but she knew what was hip. They filled a shopping cart with Christmas albums. I had seen this woman earlier digging through vinyl records with a friend. “They go for $125-$150 new… if you can find them. “If those things fit you, you gotta buy them,” said a woman wearing tortoise-shell glasses and a black coat. Bean is the patron saint of retail shopping. Remember, the store was filled with Mainers who believe L.L. The corduroy jacket fits like an empty sack of sidewalk salt and the blue shirt isn’t blue enough.īut Jen insisted loudly. The grey slacks give me high school uniform flashbacks. ![]() I’ve purchased some nice things: Grey slacks, a corduroy jean jacket and a blue v-neck shirt.īut every time I get home I say to myself: “Why did I buy this? There have been numerous trips to the L.L. I could be set adrift in a leaky lobster boat for saying this but I just don’t like the L.L. I looked the boots over and shrugged: “Sorry, but I’m a Red Wing guy.” A former fitting consultant at Lorenz Boot Shop in Iowa City, she knows her footwear. Jen spied the boots amidst the shoe racks. So why were four pairs of the puddle jumpers mingling with worn out loafers and smelly tennis shoes at the Goodwill thrift store in Ellsworth, Maine last weekend? And why were they $25 apiece? Bean boots are as high on a hipster’s wish list as derby hats, noise-reduction headphones and fat-tire bicycles. Bean boots on sale for just $25 a pair at the Ellsworth, Maine Goodwill.Īpparently rugged, waterproof L.L. Jen and fellow thrift store shopper Sarah pose with trendy L.L. ![]()
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