L.L.Bean’s Ludicrously Capacious Tote Bag Will Help You Look Like You Belong Here

The handbag market is crowded with icons, each more saucily named than the last: there’s the Birkin and the Jackie, the Jodie and the Baguette—and that’s just the tip of the croc-embossed iceberg. But the most fun bag of the bunch isn’t the brainchild of a Parisian design team or the byproduct of a Tuscan factory: it comes straight from Maine, courtesy of the brand that Leon Leonwood Bean (good luck naming a handbag after that) founded in 1912. We’re talking, of course, about the L.L.Bean Boat and Tote, a cavernous carry-all designed nearly 80 years ago as an ice… Read Full Article