I've had ballet slippers and flats before. Until recently, though, I've never owned a pair of ballet flats. I think it's because I grew up doing ballet and I've always considered them as indoor shoes.

Shoe trends come and go, but ballet flats are a wardrobe staple that will never go out of style. While the polished shoe was, admittedly, a mainstay of some questionable early-aughts attire (often ...