Axelist wrote:

While I was flicking the Bean, a tiny little voice in my head told me to have a look if there isn't something of LL on youtube, being it 2012 and everything. And tadaa, it was right.

"Terry the bootmaker" on the iconic bean boots.
And a whole LL Bean-channel to explore.

The tiny voice also told me there might something of an undercurrent in the expression "while flicking the bean", but what the heck.

Good to see you back Axe.

"Flicking the bean" is now the correct forum usage for referring to the L.L. Bean catalogue, and I endorse your adoption of this phrase.

Harpo wrote:

Axelist wrote:

While I was flicking the Bean, a tiny little voice in my head told me to have a look if there isn't something of LL on youtube, being it 2012 and everything. And tadaa, it was right.

"Terry the bootmaker" on the iconic bean boots.
And a whole LL Bean-channel to explore.

The tiny voice also told me there might something of an undercurrent in the expression "while flicking the bean", but what the heck.

Good to see you back Axe.

"Flicking the bean" is now the correct forum usage for referring to the L.L. Bean catalogue, and I endorse your adoption of this phrase.

Thank you, Harpo. That's very kind.

Seeing the film about the 100th anniversary canoe, I wondered how to place the expression about the "little man in the canoe". But back to flicking the bean.

A few more..not that youtube turned out to be goldmine so far..

SupimaTV Brooks Brothers MadMen Edition Party 10/12/2009

Guy films Brooks Brothers window in Blair Witch/Cloeverfield-style. If you want people to watch your film, hold that damn cam steady.

Show this, if your wife/gf/so or whoever again comment on your "Ivy fixation". You could as well ride elevators and film them.

For the rest of my life I will remember the fact that Brooks at the Americana Manhasset in Manhasset, NY has an Otis elevator. Not a Schindler.

These actually are nice and interesting, I'd say. Would be worth a few stills.

Bermuda College Week I

Bermuda College Week II
Like the girl in the dress. (49")

yes, the stuff about J Press is nice, but I can't get that crazy about TB's "tweaks of tradition"....

Flusser may be square and ugly but he has a point about this sort of fashion...

Oo Bop Sh'bam wrote:

Axelist wrote:

Harvard Square in the (late) 60s
What a true gem this could have been if it was filmed a few years earlier. But interesting anyway. 

Part II

Sorry, no elevators today.

I think hell would freeze over before I even consider wearing a leather waistcoat. Good vid though!

Brown leather waistcoats were a fav of pub owners here.

Like I said before, I find it interesting and sometimes funny to see the "celebs of the fora" on film. Two birds with one stone, so to say. Here is Lisa Birnbach, interviewing the people behind the LL Bean Signature line.

And - amazing what people put on youtube - someone flicking the true prep.

The doily is very distracting.

Youtube is really some sort of strange goldmine.

Oo Bop Sh'bam wrote:

I think there is a big difference between tweaking something old to make it better, then tweaking it to make it more cost-effective! I'm not sure what Bean's main driver is when it comes to that.

I guess it's marketing. With their normal range, they cover a specific clientel. The Signature range adds desing/fashion elements to attract other buyers and to justify a premium. I bought the Blucher moc because of its real camp sole and after getting used to have a lace up like this I like it very much.