shoes for good

[avad]

reposting from spicada's post on the 10percentclub community:

http://www.tomsshoes.com/

"As you can guess from the site's name, they sell shoes. However, the thing that interested me is this:

"For each pair of Toms Shoes you buy, the company will donate a pair to a child in need from Los Piletones, a small village not far from Buenos Aires, where the shoes are manufactured antisweatshop style." and HA I just found out Blake has a MYSPACE page (!) so readmore and friend this guy and repost/spread the word.

It has me thinking... What other companies do this type of thing? We often shop for ourselves and buy gifts for others, but can those purchases be even more? Do more...

In the end, my life will not be remembered by how much I acquired, but what I gave away.
~ Blake Mycoskie, owner"

woohoo. now This makes sense in the big picture. I just bought the camo-patch ones. I know I'd be buying shoes anyway..maybe a bit cheaper...but dammit THIS is the way to do it.:)
-Darlene

Comments

[captainbigwig.livejournal.com]

have you tried on a pair yet?

They look like chinese kung fu slippers.

Though I wouldn't mind the olive or the black/blue stitch.

[avad.livejournal.com]

yeah brent was upset because he had the idea to update/freshen up the kung fu slipper a while back..hehe(we're both secret designers)..we always picked them up in chinatown...for next to nothing...but well that's the rub....imagine how much the factory workers get paid if even after all the import and retail we pay nothing...

this be the fairtrade shoe.:)

[avad.livejournal.com]

nope, haven't tried a pair...they're actually not released yet. just pre-orders. but soon. but call me crazy I'd want to support this effort in its infancy even if they didn't fit perfectly. I get more out of that concept than I do having cool shoes. I want them to be ubersuccessful so more companies do things like this.