Durable, comfortable and affordable. 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. Great post! Informative and well written.
I do agree with you, Toms tend to smell bad so fast! Sounds accurate. I personally never owned Toms but my best friend and her boyfriend do, they once both took them off as we were having drinks at my place and the odor was just intoxicating. Never felt like getting a pair after that lol. As much as I love my TOMS they do tend to acquire a sour stench after being worn sockless on a couple of hot days. They are of course not suitable for hiking but are a great option for exploring a city in my opinion.
I own two pairs of Toms some red ones and a black pair like yours and I love them, but I have to agree with you on that. I already have stinky feet and wearing Toms without socks on a regular basis definitely brings the stench to another level. Now as I said I have stinky feet so other people may find it easier to keep their Toms smelling fresh.
Toms do make your feet stink. I personally never owned a pair of Toms but a lot of my friends guys and girls alike wear them and they always complain about getting smelly feet! For this reason I never felt like buying some even though they look cute and defend a good cause. If so, you should be a little mad. TOMS, of course, is an accessory company that markets itself like a charity: When you buy TOMS products, the company makes an in-kind donation to a person in need.
When someone buys a pair of TOMS shoes in the US, for instance, the company donates a pair of shoes to a child in a poor country like Haiti. I want to be very clear here: A desire to help people in need is a good thing. Paying a little more for a pair of shoes or a messenger bag because you want your purchase to help people is commendable.
But TOMS and the many other companies like it are the charitable equivalents of yes men. TOMS tells you that you that making the world a better place is all about you: that you know best how to help poor people, and that you are so powerful that it will take barely any effort on your part to make a huge difference in the world.
There are numerous products that promise to save the world through a buy one, give one model for everything from underwear to eyewear. And there are many other awareness campaigns that rely on the same kind of yes-man messaging that emphasizes the importance of the person doing the helping over the person being helped. At worst, it promotes a view of the world's poor as helpless, ineffective people passively waiting for trinkets from shoe-buying Americans.
While the shoes themselves probably won't lead to any kind of disaster, that worldview can lead to bad policies and real, serious harm. TOMS has a compelling origin story.
When founder Blake Mycoskie was traveling in Argentina in , he "witnessed the hardships faced by children growing up without shoes. More specifically, create a for-profit company that funds free shoes for poor children without relying on donations.
On the surface, this idea makes sense. Shoes seem important! They protect your feet and are a basic requirement for participation in a lot of public life. Not having them sure sounds like a big problem. Getting free shoes sure sounds like a great solution. So great, in fact, that it has spawned a slew of imitators. For instance, a new line of underwear called THINX has been spamming my inbox for weeks to let me know that every time someone purchases their "period-proof" panties, THINX donates menstrual pads to girls in Uganda.
It's easy to see why that's a really appealing idea. If the lack of minor consumer goods is causing big problems for people in the developing world, then that's easy to fix by just buying the items in question and handing them out. And if they're relatively inexpensive items, like shoes that cost just a few dollars or menstrual pads that cost only pennies, then the story gets even better: We, as Western consumers, are so rich that the price of changing a poor person's life is just a rounding error on our fashionable accessories.
Improving a poor child's well-being or clearing a young woman's path to education can be offered as a free gift with purchase, a sort of altruistic version of a McDonald's happy meal toy. And that's pretty exciting for the people doing the buying. They get to play the fairy godmother, telling poor children that they shall go to the ball after all. An ordinary shoe-buying experience gets transformed into a magical fairy tale.
A study found that this alone helps to strengthen the arch and stiffen the foot structure, which can work wonders to alleviate foot pain and other problems. It has taken a long and winding journey to show why TOMS are not necessarily bad for your feet , and might actually be good for you. However, the trails of Argentina are not the hardtop surfaces of America.
Hard surfaces are potentially damaging to our feet, knees, hips, and even spine. You instantly feel the difference as you spring from a soft mountain trail to thud onto hard asphalt because the impact of your footfalls is suddenly transmitted through your feet to your skeleton. Concrete is even worse because it is up to 10 times harder than asphalt.
This means that ideally, what you want is a shoe with lots of shock absorption and layers of cushioning. Shoes for running or walking on concrete typically have thick rubber soles and cushioning built into their inserts for this reason.
However, it is easy to forget that our feet are incredibly designed for shock absorption even on hard surfaces such as are on our streets. For short periods of walking, wearing soft-soled or otherwise minimalist shoes like TOMS actually strengthens the foot support structure. How you wear your TOMS also matters. For the classic TOMS with plain canvas uppers, you will want to have a pair of no-show socks on for extra comfort.
This also prevents blisters with your TOMS. More recent generations of the iconic shoe come with a more luxurious inner surface covered in faux fur, which means you can wear them barefoot with no problem. Remember that TOMS are good-weather shoes. In fact, they prefer staying on familiar ground most of the time.
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