FIRST DAYS OF SNOW, BE PREPARED

The first day of snow bringing my LL Bean duck boots out of the closet. These boots have along history, as an outdoorsman first and businessman second, L.L. Bean had returned from too many hunting trips with cold, wet, chafed feet. He wanted a comfortable boot that would stand up to the elements. As he would find out, he wasn’t alone. When he got a bright idea. “I was quite interested in getting the right kind of footwear for deer hunting,” he would write decades later in his autobiography, My Story: The Autobiography of a Down-East Merchant. “I took a pair of shoe rubbers from the stock on the shelves and had a shoe maker cut out a pair of 7 1/2 inch tops. The local cobbler stitched the whole thing together.” Thus, the Maine Hunting Shoe was born. 

CITY HUNTER

The company L.L.Bean was founded in 1912 by Leon Leonwood Bean a  hunter and fisherman. Bean had developed a waterproof boot ( a combination of lightweight leather uppers and rubber bottoms) that he sold to hunters via a 4 page mail-order. And that is exactly how I bought mine 10' high LL Bean Hunting boots. 

CHAD GOES TO STOCKHOLM

Monday, Chad will take the plane to Stockholm, and boy is it cold over there with lot's of snow. So to be prepared from head to toe, I have to bring some boots, but what will it be Aigle Wellies or Sorel Caribou or, or, or my favourite Red Wings. 

TIP FOR THE GIRLS

 Wool lined Quoddy

Also for the girls who will hit the streets of Stockholm, Chad says: "get booty-licious". Quoddy's are great, but also the duckboots from Sperry or the boots from Sorel. (pics by J.Crew)

DUCK BOOT

Some snow and a Fashion Week in New York make guys wearing their Duck Boots. The original was invented by LL Bean a hunter and a fisherman from Maine. He developed a waterproof boot, a combination of lightweight leather uppers and rubber bottoms, which he sold to hunters.