But the younger crowd likes to flaunt them. Stier, pushing a baby stroller around the store, is wearing his pants down over his new boots. And it's the longest-running college rivalry football game in the country, and everyone had Bean boots, so that's why we got them," Stier says. "So we were at the Lafayette-Lehigh game. Obviously it's a welcome surge in popularity for us," he says.īrendt Stier has been seeing them everywhere at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where his wife works. "These boots have always been popular with outdoorsmen - traditional outdoorsmen - and hunters and loggers and farmers, but they've seemed to garner favor in the fashion industry as well as with young folks, college campuses, folks from the cities.
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Bean spokesman Mac McKeever says the boots have a broader appeal. Some of the demand is driven by fashion trends like "lumberjack chic," but L.L. No sizes for the friends, just for my daughter.
"However, I was sent up to get three sizes, two pair for two friends. Bean brown leather boot that every teenage girl wants for Christmas," says Cheryl Lee of Natick, Mass. Bean's flagship store in Freeport, there aren't many boots left on the shelves. We've got some boots to make," Haines says There's "a lot of demand out there back orders are building on us the pressure is on. It all takes time, and Haines says it will take months to catch up with the orders.
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The workers cut leather patterns out of a full hide, punch in eyelets for the laces and then triple-stitch the uppers to the rubber bottoms. Maine's once-thriving shoe industry is now mostly gone, but these boots are still made here, by hand. The backlog stands at nearly 100,000 pairs.
Bean hired 100 new employees and added a night shift to meet the demand. Its Brunswick factory is bustling at around midnight recently as workers make the company's signature boots. The recent surge in demand has the company scrambling to fill orders, upgrading its manufacturing equipment and adding a third shift at its Maine boot factories.
Bean's iconic rubber and leather boots - long worn by practical and preppie New Englanders - have swung back into fashion with young people and are more popular than ever.
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