The Rise of the Ironic Boat and Tote
When you see one of L.L.Bean’s Boat and Tote bags in the wild—carried in line at the grocery store, perched on a beach towel—there’s a certain expectation for what’s embroidered on the side. Unhinged in Baroque script or full of it in screaming capital letters is not it. For just shy of 80 years, L.L.Bean’s canvas bags were mostly customized […]
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