Tag: clothing catalogs

  • Magazine of the Week

    Welcome back! This week, for the holiday season, we have a New England tradition. Leon Leonwood Bean developed a waterproof hunting boot in 1912 and he set up a store in Freeport, Maine, to sell it. He made up a flier to advertise the boot to his fellow hunters and the L.L. Bean catalog was…

  • Magazine of the Week

    Hi, everyone! So it’s really a store catalog, but it’s a serial and we have ’em. J. Peterman is one of the many store catalogs that we get regularly.  (Yeah, I know this isn’t the cover of the current one, but it has a cooler holiday image than the current one.) Because this company depends…