https://www.bdma.org/tags/duck-boots/Recent content in Duck-Boots on BDMA.orgHugo -- gohugo.ioenbdma.orgTue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bdma.org/post/l-l-bean-duck-boot-logo/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bdma.org/post/l-l-bean-duck-boot-logo/ <h2 id="a-boot-that-survived-its-own-launch">A Boot That Survived Its Own Launch</h2> <p>Ninety of the first hundred pairs <strong><a href="https://www.llbean.com/buy/mud-duck-boots">L.L. Bean</a></strong> sold to out-of-state sportsmen in 1912 came back. The rubber bottoms had pulled away from the leather uppers, and Leon Leonwood Bean, in the first year of his mail-order business, refunded every buyer, corrected the construction and mailed another round of circulars. The episode opens <a href="https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/516918?page=company-history">L.L.Bean's own company history timeline</a>, and the boot that came out of it is still sold today in close to its original form.</p>