Remember when TOMS were a big hit and it seemed like everyone you’d ever met owned a pair or two? They were such a thing. You couldn’t take a bus ride without hearing someone explain their give-a-pair-to-a-child-in-need business model to a stranger. You could reference them (and their long-haired creator who was always posing with his shirt unbuttoned) and everyone knew exactly what you were talking about. Then, one day, it seemed like they were just kind of over. Piper mentions them in the first season of Orange is the New Black and it sort of feels like an outdated reference. I started to think they were done… and then I heard that they’re coming to Target.
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