Hmm, not sure LL Bean should get *too* urban... but I like what I see in the pictures! Those boots and the blue bag in particular. Gorgeous colors -- and I bet some of those 70s-mom skirts and wedges will be cool on the 20-somethings and flattering on the rest of us!

Well, for Pete's sake, they show you two pictures and write about an
entire fall wardrobe! Why couldn't they show a few more items of clothing, plus those boots and shoes and accessories they speak of?

Never saw anyone I knew in those green looking sheep boots they are horrid ...

Why must everything be SO retro? SO unoriginal? Gosh all the kids and adults these days are walking clones. Sloppy American styles. LLBean has always been cool and classy...these two models look like they shopped at goodwill and bought new boots with the leftover money they had from heroin purchase. Spare me the 'new cool'. Designers need get OUT of their small world of drugs, and food starved parts of NYC and stay with original LLBean Class acts. This stuff is so dated and SO not Madison Ave. 70's Cool. Mary Tyler Moore style stuff I would SO purchase from LLBean in a second as 70's cool! LOL

Keep in mind that if you value women's rights, if you buy at LLBean you are supporting anti-choice. Linda Bean, an heir to the LLBean Fortune supports anti-choice causes.

ll jap-bean SUCKS!!!! Another anti-American company that aligned itself with a jap car maker. Every ll jap-bean executive should be treated like the traitor they are...BANG!!!!

Looks like bow legs are in, too. . . .

I just checked out LLBeans Signature website and did not find that shirt OR those pants on it anywhere ... not the regular llbean site but the SIGNATURE site. So where are they?

One can only wonder.......... Just how gay do you have to be before you wear that crap. Seriously.

I've always wondered what ever happened to the style of men tucking in their shirts. The "untucked" look just looks sloppy to me. Then, one day, as I was walking in the mall it came to me...if guys actually tucked in their shirts, you could see how stinking fat that they all are. Hilarious! Well, I guess fashion does fit the form, lol.

WOW! LL WOULD TURN FLIPS IN THE MARBLE ORCHARD IF HE SAW THIS!
NOT A VERY SMART MOVE
JG

Nice fashions for tall folks but what about the 40% of the population that is 5 foot 5" and under??

Oh, and did you notice the Skelator that they used for the female model in the article above? Jeez, she needs to go get checked for tapeworms, there's something awfully wrong with her.

I was a teenager in the '70's and I have to say I haven't seen a line so boring and uninspiring in decades. The '70's had lots of color, patterns, etc. Nothing about the boots or the bag is '70's, or even '60's. Her hairstyle isn't '70's at all. More '60's boring (straight, straggly, undone looking). '60's straight hair was straight and combed and clean, however. This model has bed head for someone with straight hair. The guy? His outfit is a cacophony of every style for the past 50 years all thrown together. He also looks messy with all these styles fighting for attention.

Bean needs to stick with what they know best - classical outdoor and country clothing. This is a disaster.

The captions for these models makes me laugh. Ain't a thing urban about the woman's outfit. I am in Baltimore, and I haven't seen anyone in that get-up uptown or downtown. If anything we are seeing a return to more feminine dressing and grooming, not this mess.

The guy's caption of 'hews closer to tradition' only works if you like to wear all your traditions at one time. The cable knit sweater, dress shirt and the tie? 1950's 'Father Knows Best'. There is nothing 1960's here. The 1950's was repeated in the 1980's for the Preppy Look. The jeans with a jacket screams 'Don Johnson - Miami Vice'. The wrinkled pants is 1990's reminiscent of grunge, and the shoes cross a lot of decades because there hasn't been much originality in men's footwear.

All told, the female model uninspires and the male model looks thoroughly uncomfortable (Think Little Randy in A Christmas Story when his mother bundled him up for school in that winter onesy looking thing and he couldn't move his arms).

LL Bean - Get thy head out of thy rump and stick to what you know!!!!!!!

Coop, of course they are trying to target gay men or metrosexuals, since they, like a lot of women, place so much emphasis on style that they will ring up the old credit card until such time as Suze Ormann has to have an intervention! LOL.

YUK! Hey L.L. Stick to what you do best. There's plenty of other niche stores to sell this stuff. Urban Polish?
You can't polish a turd.

Big mistake. I love LL Bean for their classic outdoorsy clothes which are shown on healthy, clean athletic looking people, and I'm sure many women (and men) feel the same. Now it's just another company pushing the emaciated bow legged look. Very sad.

Personally, I like the look of the old look and hate the signature look. Go back and rejoice that LL Bean has a look and a tradition to call their own. People like to know that they can get the standard stuff there. You don't need to go funky to call in others. The Gap did this for a while and lost their old clients. I would rethink showing this line. I would like to see more your line on an older working mom. Give that one a try