Toms for kids in need.

Celebrity in Kingwood is now selling TOMS shoes which for every shoe sold, the company gives a pair of shoes to an impoverished child.


By JENNIFER SUMMER
Updated: 04.17.09

A couple of days before the Celebrity retail shop in Kingwood received its orders of TOMS Shoes, people were inquiring about the shoes and when the store would get them.

“We have had a great response on TOMS Shoes. We have had high school students, moms and dads purchasing the shoes,” Celebrity owner Brook Hutchinson said.

The success of the sale of TOMS Shoes is beneficial for the store but also great because the owner of TOMS Shoes, Blake Mycoskie, donates a pair of shoes to a child in need for every shoe sold in stores across the country.

Since their beginning, TOMS, which stands for tomorrows, Shoes has given more than 140,000 pairs of shoes to children in need through the One for One model and is planning to donate even more shoes this year.

The cause is very important to Celebrity as Mycoskie and Hutchinson grew up together and went to elementary, middle, high school and both attended Southern Methodist University.

The commercials featuring Mycoskie for AT&T have begun to air on television and the story of TOMS Shoes efforts can also be seen on the company’s website and on its Facebook profile.

TOMS has delivered shoes to impoverished children in Argentina, Ethiopia, South Africa and parts of the United States.

Celebrity is one of the few stores in the area to stock the shoes and can order any size or color through their website for customers.

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