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...maneuvers through the fog beside the fish dealer's pier, his boat heaped with mussels. Three men in camouflage and carrying shotguns get into an aluminum boat and head out in the rain to where the ducks are. But up on Main Street, a different scene unfolds. At L.L. Bean, a woman fusses over a $65 goose-down pillow, then says to her husband, "I spend half my life in bed, I might as well have a comfortable pillow." Across from Bean's, at Cole Haan, beautiful shoes are on sale for $89, marked down from $165. Uncountable thousands...
Freeport (pop. 6,000) is a former shoe factory town 20 miles up the coast from Portland on old Route 1. Its factory outlets sprang from the success of Bean's, founded in Freeport in 1912. It now does $40 million in sales on Main Street and attracts more than 2 million shoppers a year, maybe 2 1/2 million. Edgar Leighton, president of the Merchants' Association, says businessmen looked at those figures and wondered, "How come I'm not getting some of that." So they came to Freeport...
John Rogers owns the Falcon Restaurant, just down the street from Bean's, and he says customers ask his waitresses where various stores are, but "they don't know. The stores are going in so fast." He says it's not one new store at a time but ten or 15. "My sister-in-law lives in Florida now and has been gone three years. When she got back, she just couldn't believe...
...York stopped in Maine. If the ratio of New Yorkers to other visitors holds true this rainy October day, 17% of the out-of-staters walking the streets of Freeport are from the Empire State, which partly accounts for the fact that not one of the men going into Bean's looks like a partridge shooter, though that is the recreation for many men of Maine in this season. What was once practical outdoor wear has become fashion clothing. A chamois shirt looks good on Saturday morning in Westport, Conn. The hunter from Millinocket probably gets his shirt...
...group of 6500 students polled, 31 percent said the style made famous by L.L. Bean is the hottest at their school, with 17 percent of the students rating an "earthy" bohemian look as the most popular. High fashion, athletic, and punk looks each got about a 10 percent response...