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It feels like we’re a generation searching for some sort of authenticity,” said Jason Diamond, 31, a writer and founder of Volume 1 Brooklyn, a Brooklyn-based event production company and indie publishing imprint. He compares “the guy who’s never actually spent time in the forest wearing a Barbour jacket, or someone who’s never gone fishing wearing duck boots” to clothing stores that display stacks of well-read books and furbish their walls with reclaimed wood.
“These things seem inherently real to us, and they look really good,” said Diamond.
Comfort, he adds, may be another driving force — which seems to be something everyone can agree on, even self-proclaimed preps.
Columbia: Didn’t want me as an undergrad, but care about my thoughts on why people wear Barbour jackets and LL Bean duck boots. -
I wrote an essay about the book Guaranteed to Last: L.L. Bean’s Century of Outfitting America. Check it out.
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More L.L. Bean love. This time, it’s this rusty old can of waterproof dressing I picked up.
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The most important item in my closet is an Oxford shirt.
Racked goes to Freeport to hang out with the L.L. Bean crew. -
Leon Leonwood Bean has a biography.
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I have the Tattersall Sportsman dress shirt in every color. It’s inspired by the shirt that hunters would pick up on their way back into the big city after weekend expeditions in Maine.
I guess we can thank those hunters for something, because this is really one of the best shirts LL Bean makes, and they’re currently on sale for $30 bucks. I’d suggest buying them all.
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This is the best shirt today. The L.L. Bean red Madras plaid long sleeve shirt from their signature collection. $69.00.
Jason Diamond is a writer and editor who lives in New York City. He's the founder of Vol. 1 Brooklyn, current New York Deputy Editor of Flavorpill, and the former editor of Jewcy.com. His writing has been published by The New York Times, The Paris Review, Vice, NPR.org, the A.V. Club, Tablet, The Rumpus, Thought Catalog, Impose, Miami New Times, Capital New York, and the Chicago Tribune. He’s currently at work on a book. He thinks it’s going to be awesome, and hopes that the book buying public does also.
These are a few of his favorite things.
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