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#1 2007-09-23 15:23:26
- Marc Grayson
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LL Bean Barn Coat
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#2 2007-09-23 16:46:39
- tom222222
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
I agree, why buy a Barbour coat when you can buy a Bean field coat?
#3 2007-09-23 17:14:32
- Marc Grayson
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#4 2007-09-23 21:47:05
- Horace
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
Yes. Those are classics. I believe they come or came with "game" pockets too.
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#6 2007-09-23 23:18:41
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#7 2007-09-24 00:48:04
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
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#8 2007-09-24 02:46:34
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
I like the look of the LL bean barn coat.
About 10 years ago Marks and Spencers - did a coat that was very similar .
Rusty brown in colour - brown cordouroy collar - made from a canvasy type material- very heavy duty- took a real pounding.
I liked it a lot and got lots of use from it- however my barbour is waterproof- and with the British climate as it is-probably a coat that I get much more service from.
I agree with my Uncle here- apples and pears.
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#9 2007-09-24 07:29:46
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
Just purchased the Original Field Coat last week to replace my almost 20 year old one. Sad, but necessary. Nice for the money and never seen anymore on anyone. Good for those, like me, who wear it for its true purpose.
Down with costumes!
Archie
#10 2007-09-24 09:30:08
- Tony Ventresca
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
This coat is not the original as we discussed before.
It is very low-end, affordable but not in the Barbour category.
TV
#13 2007-09-24 11:41:35
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
I always used to intend buying the Woolrich Black Powder jacket.
Never did.
Yeah, Tony is right - This jacket isn't what it was & it is low end.
But I love it still for its charm & its style.
I've got room for low end.
Trashable Trad!
j.
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#14 2007-09-24 12:26:44
- tripchauncey
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
Ol Sports,
When the barn coat became too hoi polloi, the truly trad amongst us had to step up to invest in the real hunter's models. I am sure that brother H and many of you chaps understand of what I speaketh.
Cheers,
Trip
http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?page=upland-field-coat&categoryId=37055&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&parentCategory=9165&cat4=2104&shop_method=pp&feat=9165-tn
Edit - not the blaze orange variety.
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#15 2007-09-24 12:33:25
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
Now a true "Trad" would have deleted his post & rewritten it, so nervous would he have been of making a faux-pas! 
Here's to Trip - He's too trad for "Trad"!!
j.
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#17 2007-09-24 16:56:40
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
Cabela's version of the Barn/Field coat is another, perhaps better, option, with heavier material and a lower price...
http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0033770922639a.shtml
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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#18 2007-09-24 18:12:48
- bull
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
Marc, I have to disagree.
Neither the Bean nor the Cabel coat is nearly as attractive and classic as the Barbour.
I inherited a Barbour from my sister, who inherited it from a senior in her prep school dorm when she was a freshman, and that girl in turn inherited it from her boyfriend. By the time it got to me, it was a foul-smelling pile of waxed cloth that had been beat to death, but I loved it all the same. I was a freshman in high school and thought anything my older sister did was cool.
It fit great and felt amazing. I had to retire it when I finished wearing it at some point in high school, but I probably should't have. Frankly I wish I still had it.
The sh!ttier a Barbour gets, the more the love.
I think they still kill the competition, hands down.
Cheers.
#19 2007-09-24 18:22:10
- Marc Grayson
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#21 2007-09-25 01:12:48
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
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#22 2007-09-25 01:17:52
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
How "American Trad" are Barbours?
I view them as deeply Anglo & do not wear them as they jar (jarr?) in my eyes with my nice Ivy look. They look too 'Sloane' to me.
Obviously there is much that is AngloTrad in AmTrad, but I was just wondering about Barbours.
Were they worn back in the day?
Or just 80's onwards?
????
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#23 2007-09-25 09:54:45
- Arthur
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
When I was in high school in the eighties, it was a preppy badge of honor to wear your dad's old Barbour jacket (or something that could be claimed to be your dad's old Barbour jacket) when the weather changed. Similar models from the old Abercrombie and Fitch and the other usual suspects were also prized. Usually with Bean duck boots, jeans, oxford shirt, shetland sweater.
I contemplated stealing one belonging to a friend's ass of a dad, a real creep--my friend even offered to sneak it out of his closet for me. I never went through with it.
I bought one of those Bean Adirondak jackets in olive last year for around $30 and have worn it a zillion times. It's a perfect transitional-season weight and looks good with everything.
#24 2007-09-26 01:16:17
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
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#25 2007-09-26 02:41:49
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Re: LL Bean Barn Coat
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