Bobs vs Toms: Choose Your Alliance

There is a battle going on. Canvas vs canvas. Philanthrope vs Philanthrope. Make no mistakes readers, it's ugly out there. The fact of the matter is, you better choose your alliance wisely. These muh-fuggers ain't messing around, they are out for blood. But who should you side with? Let's just see if we can't hash that out.

First, we have Toms, the OG on the block. Dating back to 2006, Toms was the first big player in the philanthropic shoe game. This OG status may appeal to the Hipster crowd, seeing as they can claim to have been a part of the BOGOTANCSE (buy-one-give-one-to-a-needy-child-somewhere-else) movement before it went mainstream. Although, now that they are mainstream, this may cause a polar shift away from Toms, unless they start making Civil War brogans.

Next, we have Bobs. The new kid on the block. They hit the streets running in 2010, a long four years after Toms. One could argue that Bobs just came along and ripped the whole look of Toms, but in reality Toms ripped the look of the traditional Espadrille (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espadrille) anyways, so fuck 'em. I imagine that to Hipsters, Bobs have all the tongue in cheek appeal of four-striped Adidas knock-offs or Pro-wings. "Oh yeah, I'm aware that these are a rip of Toms and shouldn't be cool, but that's what makes them ironic and cool". So, Bobs have that going for them. Plus, yuppies love supporting big corporations and being as Bobs are manufactured by Sketchers, yuppies can just pick up a pair of Bobs the next time they are out buying a pair of ass-sculpting Shape-Ups. Shit, I bet even the Cubes is rocking out Bobs, because it's all about comfort for that dude.

Toms:

-OG in the shoe game

-Helps the needy

-Mainstream now

-Don't make civil war brogans yet

Bobs:

-Ripoff of a ripoff

-Helps the needy

-Ironic in the sense that it's cool not to be cool

-Cubes may be rockin' em

-Made by the same peeps that make them Shape Ups

Choose. Now.