MD049 – Toms Shoes
Based in Santa Monica, California, Toms Shoes is a shoe shop with a mission: for each of the Alpargata-style Argentinean shoes that Toms sells, the company donates a pair to a child in need on your behalf during what they call a “shoe drop”. We visited Toms’ headquarters and spoke to several employees in an aim to find out what drives this cause based company.
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Toms Shoes
Alpargata (Espadrilles)
Argentina
Arrested Development (group)
Sia
Plain White T’s
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Tags: argentina, mahalo, mahalodaily, poverty, south africa, toms shoes, veronica, veronicabelmont
February 4th, 2008 at 6:12 am
hahaha the laugh at the end was hilarious.. hehehe
February 4th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Amazing what they’re doing in my country. I had no idea. Funny thing, I own alpargatas, but they are Adidas!
February 4th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
This is great and the shoes are so cute! I will be purchasing a pair this afternoon once I settle on a style, there are so many to choose from.
It would be so cool if they did a video of them taking the shoes down to the kids so people could see for themselves how this helps. How about a Toms Shoes Daily?
February 4th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
[...] and grabs your attention. Toms Shoes is an example of such a company. I just ran across them from Mahalo Daily and am going to put an order in this afternoon. For every shoe they sell they will take a pair and [...]
February 4th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Betterhalf, they actually did do a video of them taking the shoes down to the kids. You can see it on their website..
February 4th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
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February 4th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
This was an awesome episode. I was born in Argentina, and it always nice to see people helping other people. I hope they spread their soles to the even more places. I’m going to get a couple of pairs right now.
Vamos vamos Argentina!
February 5th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Such an evil laugh. Hilarious. Great story, I had never heard of Tom’s. I’ll check them out.
February 5th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
[...] por ahí me encontré con un video en Mahalo Daily que cuenta la historia de una empresa norteamericana llamada Toms Shoes que se puso [...]
February 7th, 2008 at 5:56 am
[...] Lizensierung und die neue Version von Flock, aber auch andere Stories, wie der Hintergrund zu Toms Shoes (Hilfsprojekt für Südafrika), Skydiving, Hundetraining und solche Sachen. Sehr [...]
February 8th, 2008 at 6:01 am
got the link to this vid messaged to me on youtube. love it! great story
March 16th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
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April 10th, 2008 at 8:46 am
“You wouldn’t want a father and a young SON dancing together — because that would be gay.”
No, it would not be gay. It would be refreshing to see a father teaching his son the gentleness and fun of dancing.
However, it would be interesting to try to find a pair that fit both the parent and the child. Don’t you just hate shopping for shoes!
I guess a blue pair would be for mother and son.
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May 5th, 2008 at 9:30 am
That is really a sweet thing they are doing. And the shoes are really quite cute.
February 26th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
This post has good and valuable information, thank you.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
CNBC doing a feature on Tom’s Shoes April 2nd at 9p eastern – “The Entrepreneurs”
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July 16th, 2009 at 4:44 am
I like this shoes ,it very beauty!!!
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August 7th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
they are nuthin to great but ill get a pair or 2 outta the bunch to keep my collection beefing up
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