# Why I Love L.L. Bean

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-l-l-bean/631603>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 15, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-l-l-bean/631603 "2012-08-15T20:38:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-l-l-bean/631603/21 "2012-08-17T14:10:31Z")

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I love LL Bean and their clothes. I haven’t had the awesome experience as others have – I bought a blue skirt and the hem fell out of it, and I was unable to find thread to match to fix the hem. So when I repaired the hem, the stitching showed and I’m not good enough to make it look right. So I called them to ask if they could replace the skirt, and they said it was no longer available. They didn’t offer to repair it, or replace it with a similar item. Oh well. I still have it and wear it, and it bothers me that the stitching shows. I doubt that people are looking at me and pointing and laughing, but I wish they’d at least sent me some thread.

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**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-l-l-bean/631603/22 "2012-08-17T15:19:40Z")

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There’s an L.L. Bean store close to me. Every December I pick out a couple of things, try them on to be sure they fit, and then tell my mother so she can order one of them from their catalog as a Christmas gift. It works out great.

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**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-i-love-l-l-bean/631603/23 "2012-08-17T15:21:29Z")

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> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#):
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> Almost every men’s thing they sell is available in tall sizes. Love that.

Dingdingding! It was one of the first places I could find decent clothes in tall sizes. I wish flannel shirts would come back; I really liked theirs.

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