page_title: L.L.Bean
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: L.L.Bean / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: L.L. Bean shoe car in Freeport, Maine.
context_page_description: L.L.Bean is an American, privately held retail company founded in 1912 by Leon Leonwood Bean. The company is headquartered where it was founded, in Freeport, Maine. It specializes in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment.
context_section_description: Netflix Show Luke Cage references the company's return policy in Season 1, Episode 3. The character Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes (Mahershala Ali) is quoted saying "There ain't no return policy, this ain't L.L.Bean." 
  Netflix Show Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt character Jacqueline Voorhees (Jane Krakowski) jokes that the title character is "a model for L.L.Bean’s performance fleeces" in Season 2 Episode 3.
  The Official Preppy Handbook, an ironic description of upper-class and upper-middle-class life in America, describes L.L.Bean as "nothing less than Prep mecca."
  Author Hunter S. Thompson referred to wearing L.L.Bean shorts in a number of his works, most notably during the "Wave Speech" featured in chapter eight of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
  The 1990 Paul Rudnick novel I'll Take It was a humorous tale of a Long Island mother taking some of her children on a Fall shopping trip through New England with L.L.Bean being the final destination. As the plot unfolds, the mother divulges to her son that she is actually planning to rob L.L.Bean in order to update her and her husband's furniture in their retirement.
  The blog Your LL Bean Boyfriend features the male models of the L.L.Bean Catalog paired with captions that the perfect boyfriend might say.
  In the 1988 film Beetlejuice, whilst looking around the  horribly outdated house the  interior designer character Otho exclaims "Ooo. Deliver me from L.L.Bean!"
  Alfred Gingold's Items from Our Catalog is a parody of the L.L.Bean catalog.
  The third stanza of Robert Lowell’s poem “Skunk Hour”:
caption: L.L.Bean Bootmobile in Freeport, Maine, July 7, 2012
exif: {"Image Make": "PENTAX Corporation", "Image Model": "PENTAX K20D", "Image XResolution": "240", "Image YResolution": "240", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.6 (Windows)", "Image DateTime": "2012:11:16 12:18:05", "Image Artist": "Picasa", "Image ExifOffset": "236", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "942", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5400", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/180", "EXIF FNumber": "67/10", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "100", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0230", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2012:07:07 19:42:46", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2012:07:07 19:42:46", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "7491853/1000000", "EXIF ApertureValue": "2744161/500000", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "16", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2967", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1978", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "Interoperability RelatedImageWidth": "3667", "Interoperability RelatedImageLength": "2436", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "806", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF CVAPattern": "[2, 0, 2, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0]", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "24", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Soft", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "3", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "4e93d95665217777557fe54275c20859", "EXIF LensSpecification": "[16, 50, 14/5, 14/5]", "EXIF LensModel": "smc PENTAX-DA* 16-50mm F2.8 ED AL [IF] SDM"}