It isn’t often that the latest fashion must-have can be found already tucked away in your handbag, so this is truly a moment to savour. Those of you who came to work in your ballet pumps this morning, only to change into your heels when you sat down, are at the forefront of something terribly stylish. Why? Because ballet shoes, despite never really having gone away, are back. You may even want to swap out of your heels again to celebrate.
Allow me to unpick that for you. Even though plenty of women still wear ballet pumps most days, these (supposedly) timelessly chic souliers have officially been in the fashion hinterland since they reached near-ubiquity ten years ago. Stylish types like full market saturation even