Toadi
A sustainable everyday shoe that grows with your baby.
On average, a child will grow roughly 6 sizes from birth to 2 years old. Toadi is designed to accommodate this high growth rate of young feet using expanding, origami-inspired auxetic patterns & healthy, grown-to-form, mycelium-based materials.
Toadi grows with your child.
38 million pairs of kid’s shoes are produced annually, but with the rapid growth rate of young feet, a great portion of this figure finds its way into landfills before the useful end-of-life.
In fact, children often go through 25+ pairs of shoes by the time they turn 12.
Jenny Glover, mother of 3 kids, aged 1-7
How it Works
Auxetic patterns are structures or materials that, when stretched, become thicker perpendicular to the applied force. In other words, they become fatter in cross-section when stretched.
The upper of the Toadi shoe is made of a Japanese plant-based Sasawashi fabric that is folded heat set in an auxetic pattern. Similarly, the Muskin (mycelium leather) sole is laser-cut with a matching pattern.
Creating a circular solution that proactively eliminates waste by extending a life cycle & regenerating waste into new resources.