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To: Red in Blue PA; All
Know why? A few years ago they brought manufacturing of them back to the USA.

Now, they're so popular, they're not in the catalog. The available ones are listed online, but it's best to call the rep.....and don't forget tell them you're only buying them because they're made in the USA. I just ordered a pair of rain boots, and there were only a few colors available in my size.

FWIW, complainers to LL Bean about not having enough merchandise made in the USA is giving them fits. I also refuse to buy anything from them made in China or anything that can now be fourd of equal or better than their quality elsewhere....like 100% cotton jeans, sweatshirts, and wool winter hats.

16 posted on 12/06/2014 11:05:21 AM PST by grania
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To: grania

I live in Maine, and that’s one of my sister’s complaints, too....too much of their merchandise is made in China or elsewhere overseas, and is pricey.

Speaking of L.L. Bean, several years ago I went to a rummage sale in a small town here in Maine. I bought a number of books for fifty cents each. One of them was “L.L. Bean’s Guide to Hunting in the Maine Woods,” or a title something like that, from 1942. The book was signed by L.L. Bean himself.

The only flaw: a previous owner drew a handle bar moustache on the portrait of L.L. Bean in the front of the book with a ball point pen!


31 posted on 12/06/2014 12:38:39 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Amnesty is Obama's Way of Saying "FU" to all those who voted on November 4th)
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