without changing anything, they’re back in style.”Īdd that to the sudden boom in practical outerwear, their appearance last winter on The Sartorialist, the polarising rise of the lumbersexual and possibly Alexa Chung in a lumberjack jacket for Tommy Hilfiger, and practical footwear is having a moment. “They’re all over college campuses and high schools. “Younger people are buying them,” she told Yahoo Style.

According to Carolyn Beem, company spokesperson at LL Bean, kids are to blame. Well they’re incredibly waterproof, in a way not dissimilar to Sorel boots, just with a little heel, you know, like a duck. A quick call to the hotline reveals that they are indeed “selling something crazy” and the whole thing is “unprecedented”. The sudden rush screams gimmick, but the company insists they’re not. In fact, the sure-fire way to turn anything cult is to make a limited run of it. While the three year waiting list days of the Birkin have slowed down (this bag, created by Hermès for the French singer Jane Birkin in the 1980s supposedly after the company’s CEO saw her struggling with a giant bag while boarding a plane, created a frenzy of demand), waiting lists are still two-a-penny.

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