ll bean
Company History In 1912, Leon Leonwood Bean (L. ... Bean’s first product was the Maine Hunting Shoe, a product he developed out of a need for waterproof footwear to be used when trampling through the Maine woods. ... During the 1920s LL Bean’s profile was raised by the attention its products received from several notable personalities of the time such as Admiral Donald Macmillan who outfitted his Artic expedition with Bean Boots and Ernst Hemingway who recommended Bean Boots to a hunting partner. ... The 1950s ushered in the era of suburbia, McCarthyism, color television and Elvis, it also brought significant developments for LL Bean. ... In 1973 50, 000 pairs of Bean Boots had been sold to date and in 1976, LL Bean had been assigned its own zip code, and was registering a steady increase in mail orders.