What makes toms shoes so great

With every purchase, TOMS helps someone in need — either by donating a pair of shoes, helping with medical care, supporting water system installation and so much more. You can feel good about buying TOMS because your money helps improve lives. The styles seemed to have more flair than I remembered, and in addition to the classics, TOMS makes boots, sandals, bags, glasses and more. I loved all the patterns and materials from which you could choose.

I noticed the molded footbed right away and it was so incredibly comfortable. Sizing: True to size. They look great with casual pants, shorts and even skirts and will easily transition into fall.

Get your own pair on the TOMS website here. I was out all afternoon and no blisters! Would you be interested in writing a review about those… or your Rocket Dog flats? I like to wear the invisible socks with mine though. I did a long walk easy terrain without socks and got heel blisters so socks all the time for me now. My TOMS have gone through the washing machine and all knight stain removing soaks multiple times. I get my normal shoe size.

My first pair were olive classics and i had them for about 2 years. I threw them out because they still smelled. They were extremely comfortable, durable and easy to wash — no fading at all when I put them in the washing machine — although I did put them in a wash bag first because they were so dirty. Glad I came across this post as I would actually need to use them for traveling.

You know I go back and fourth to love or hate Toms. I love slip on shoes. I took them and my older nikes. I wore my Toms all week. And we were high up in the mountains the roads were rocky.

The canvas I love because I get blisters easy. Only place I hate useing them is the beach lets just say the Jamaica beach sand went home to the States with me.

I love mine and wear them all the time, and they actually held up after wearing them around Italy for a month. But man, my feet were aching every day. My new go-to shoe is a sneaker from Sperry. I wish I could remember what it was called, but it looks just like a sneaker with the laces taken out. They are extremely comfortable and pretty durable, too! I wore them to do everything short of climbing a mountain around Morocco, Spain, and France. And I wear them for work at home!

I still have my original pair that have logged thousands of walking miles with me — everywhere from Texas to Greece. I adore them. They come out fresh and new every time. Holes and all. I fell down my deck steps when i hit the first step. I have lived in my house for 13 years and I have gone up and down these steps thousands of times. It was not wet and I bit the dust. I have huge hematomas all over my body and this has been a healing process. Needless to say, I will not wear them again or purchase another pair.

They should have some kind of sole on there. I slipped while walking down my porch stairs, thank God my mother was holding the baby. Every person I see wearing the flat Toms shoes hears this story, I am so anti-Toms. They are unsafe, period. Definitely agree with the odor issue though! They smell quite awful. Much more comfortable and I have been doing alot of traveling with them. Durable, washable and come in different colors and textures. I concur with the author of this post.

I concur on the durability, and I concur on the lack of tread. And I will add that for travel shoes, I wear Tieks. Going forward, Mycoskie hopes to continue to expand by growing the number of TOMS retail stores and coffee shops across the world.

Beyond products, Mycoskie says the company is also dedicated to investing in socially focused companies similar to TOMS. TOMS Giving Partner children gives shoes within its community programs and services aimed at eradicating child poverty.

A photo posted by toms on May 10, at pm PDT. The return on investment will allow the retail company to invest in even more businesses and continue to place TOMS at the forefront of the social-entrepreneurship movement. As TOMS leads the charge in companies that make giving back a priority, Mycoskie hopes other companies can learn a thing or two from his approach.

Part of growing a business is having a strong global strategy. Fill out the form below to download. Part of the point of the experiment was to see if the benefits of the expert advice outweighed the costs of bringing them on.

It did not: Over the period that the study measured, the program would have achieved a greater impact if it had skipped the experts and handed out the extra cash to recipients.

Likewise, the charity GiveDirectly has seen very positive — and efficient — results from its programs of directly sending cash.

Those TOMS recipients are turning the shoe-donation program into a cash-donation program on their own — just a really inefficient one, in which the costs of developing and delivering the shoes are essentially wasted.

It seems plausible, for instance, that things like vaccinations or anti-malarial bednets should be provided directly because they carry benefits to the whole community if enough people use them.

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