In 1948, Claire McCardell designed the first pair of ballet flats marketed to a fashionable non-ballerina audience. The structure of ballet flats, which are all the rage right now, has not changed in more than a century. How do we make sense of a "trend" when the item is one of the oldest designs in existence? For Ruby and Natalie's ballet flat recommendations and visual links to the flats mentioned in this episode visit covered.substack.com