\u221e<\/em><\/p>\nWhen Blake came to Vancouver for a TOMS Shoes launch event at Holt Renfrew, one of my best friends Alyssa got word of his appearence and sent me a bbm with the details. A frantic bus ride a few hours later we ended up in his presence. He’s a chill dude, totally in the middle of tons of TOMS promotions, but was nice enough to take time to sign my flag.<\/p>\n
I felt like I was at the launch party for the Abercrombie of grassroots movements. Beautiful Holt Renfrew staff members were wearing my primary choice of shoe as they served me hipster<\/em> bottled cola out of a little red wagon as we hung out next to designer jeans. There was carmel kettle corn that came in little TOMS bags, a TOMS dj, a TOMS air hockey table and TOMS pillows.<\/p>\nI love TOMS for their simplicity, comfort, and that they give a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair you buy. Because of their partnership with Holt Renfrew I know that more shoes go to more children in need but I left with feelings that the TOMS Shoes experience was becoming a little less personal and thoughtful. The personal touch of giving you a TOMS flag and a TOMS sticker with every purchased seemed to see a little less special and I felt that people who were buying TOMS didn’t even know the company values that made them special.<\/p>\n
After all of the glitter and glam of TOMS being launched in Holt Renfrew stores that evening, I didn’t stop giving my TOMS back at home the love and attention they deserve. I’m still a TOMS Shoes fan and I’ll still support their mission of giving shoes to those in need. I hope the message of that reaches the masses that now wear their shoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
…and totally forgot to tell you guys about it until now, so sorry. That’s me on the left, Blake on the right! It’s no secret that I love TOMS Shoes. I’ve owned so many pairs that I can’t count how many I’ve actually had. I have so many that I have summer only TOMS that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5348,26018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-posts","category-second-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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That’s me on the left, Blake on the right!<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/erica\/files\/2010\/11\/Photo-184.jpg\" "\\"Blake,")
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