Are TOMS Making a Comeback in 2026?

Search "are TOMS back" and the same debate plays out across fashion forums and comment sections: is the Alpargata a genuine return, or nostalgia dressed up as a trend. We can't settle that from the outside. We can tell you what's actually moving off our own shelves, and TOMS is moving.

What's Actually Selling Right Now

The Marin Slingback has been one of our stronger TOMS sellers this year, and it's not the shoe you'd have picked as the comeback story a few years ago — it's a textile slingback sandal, not the canvas Alpargata everyone associates with the brand. That's arguably the more interesting signal: the revival isn't just nostalgia for one silhouette, it's renewed interest in the brand across several different shoe types at once.

The Alpargata Classics Never Really Left

The canvas espadrille that built the company has stayed in continuous production the entire time, through the One for One years and after. What's changed is who's buying it and why. A style that once read as a slightly earnest, ethically-branded flat is now turning up in outfit posts with zero mention of the giving model at all — bought purely because it's a comfortable, cheap-to-style flat that goes with everything from tailored trousers to a summer dress.

Fashion coverage has pointed to a broader flat-shoe and ballet-adjacent trend cycle pulling brands like TOMS back into view — the same swing that's brought back Mary Janes and simple canvas flats generally. TOMS just happens to already own a genuinely good version of that shape.

Styling It in 2026

The current range gives you more than one way into this. The Alpargata still works exactly as it always did — bare ankle, rolled hem, warm-weather uniform. The men's Alonso espadrille takes the same idea in a slightly dressier direction, closer to a loafer than a plimsoll, which is a better fit if you want the silhouette without it reading as beachwear.

Whichever way you take it, the shoe holding this comeback together is a nineteen-year-old design that TOMS never actually stopped making. That's a stronger comeback story than most.

If comfort is the thing holding you back from buying in, we've covered what podiatrists actually say about TOMS in detail. And if the brand's history is what's giving you pause, here's what changed at TOMS since the One for One years.

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