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No need to worry about manufacturing, either: cheap toms shoes "require that the factories operate under sound labor conditions, pay fair wages and follow local labor standards. A code of conduct is signed by all factories" while "production staff routinely visits these factories to make sure they are maintaining these working standards." Currently, TOMS produces in Argentina, China and Ethiopia while giving shoes in 23 different countries. According to the company's most recent Giving Report, one million pairs of shoes have been given away.Seeing as it's the holiday season, why not forgo buying that questionably ugly sweater and buy a pair of TOMS for your kids, cousins etc.? You'll be in the know while also giving back.

Some critics say toms stripe shoes marketing campaign exploits the poor and manipulates the public."You feel shame when you look through their catalogs" filled with photos of poor children, says Tomas Pando, founder of Paez shoes in Argentina, which makes simple, slip-on cloth footwear similar to TOMS', based on the alpargatas worn by Argentine workers. He says TOMS' use of poverty images is "like stopping me on the street and saying, 'I'm dying, give me a penny.'"The shaggy-haired, neo-hippie-looking Mycoskie, whose title at TOMS is Chief Shoe Giver, is embraced by liberal hipsters in Los Angeles and New York City, as well as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other progressive luminaries.

Blake Mycoskie, founder of toms shoes wholesale, has issued an exclusive statement to Store in response to an embarrassing controversy linking the popular urban apparel company to anti-gay, anti-choice group "Focus on the Family."After Christianity Today reported that Mycoskie was apparently developing a relationship with Focus on the Family, the news infuriated people who were hoping to do good with their TOMS purchase, through the company's shoe giving program in developing countries. Across Facebook and Twitter on Friday, gay, lesbian, and allied customers expressed outrage that TOMS would associate itself with an anti-gay, anti-choice group. Ms. Magazine started a petition on Store that quickly received more than 400 signatures in just a few hours asking TOMS to drop their relationship with Focus on the Family.If you would know more about toms classic canvas shoes wholesale info, please visit http://www.tomsshoescoupon2011.com/.