LL Bean's Parker

[Reggie B]

Garth thank you for your very informative and detailed response. I think it sheds some much needed light on LL Bean and its commitment customers. Being an executive team leader for a regional company in the Southeast I understand the challenges of maintaining and motivating salespersons. It is a tough job, especially in today's business environment.

[Researcher]

In the old days my family was very into the 16-inch Russell Ike Waltons.

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There was an old pair or two around the house, but everybody was wearing 8 to 10-inch boots by the time I started hunting. I found a good condition pair of Ike Waltons in my size at St Vincents and wore them a few times but that was a lot of lacing!!

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

In the old days my family was very into the 16-inch Russell Ike Waltons.

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There was an old pair or two around the house, but everybody was wearing 8 to 10-inch boots by the time I started hunting. I found a good condition pair of Ike Waltons in my size at St Vincents and wore them a few times but that was a lot of lacing!!

And they didn’t have the speed-lace hooks…





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[edgarspencer]

If it's too cold to wear my Allegash shorts, I'm in a pair of Bean jeans. 365.
So what they're made in Mexico; ALL jeans are made in Mexico. I was disappointed when they went to five belt loops from seven, and said as much to the sales woman. She took my name and telephone number, and called me two weeks later to say she found me four pairs from several other stores, which I bought right then and there. I get enough Bean Bucks back on my credit card to get a new pair every couple of months. I can't get that kind of attention anywhere else.

[Dan]

In my opinion the very best pants ever sold by LL Bean were the "Comfort Waist" flannel lined jeans. with the stretch in the waist you could order your normal waist size for fair weather and when the cold really started to set in you could start to layer your clothing and the stretch waist was accommodating. Now I have to look for used ones on EBAY.

As far as hunting boots are concerned I had a pair of Browning manufactured leather boots tht I wore daily for probably 20 years without the laces ever needing to be replaced, when I wore the soles down to having holes in them I took the boots into my hunting woods, climbed high into a cedar tree and zip tied them to a limb, I just didn't have the heart to toss them in the trash after they carted me around for so many years.

[Steve Hodges]

You are right about the flannel lined jeans. Wore out several pairs of them !

[Sara LeFever]

Pete Lester and I were in Freeport, ME today, and paid a visit to L.L. Bean. Here are some photos of the two guns as they are displayed in the Hunting and Fishing department.

Side note - we asked multiple staff members in the gun department, where these guns were located (before I referred back to this thread for the answer), and none of them had a clue.

Sara

[Sara LeFever]

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[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Sara LeFever

Pete Lester and I were in Freeport, ME today, and paid a visit to L.L. Bean. Here are some photos of the two guns as they are displayed in the Hunting and Fishing department.

Side note - we asked multiple staff members in the gun department, where these guns were located (before I referred back to this thread for the answer), and none of them had a clue.

Sara

Note this gun does not have a sinestral stock.