We keep circling back to ballet flats — the light-wash jeans and flat pairing got called the denim uniform of the summer a few weeks back, and since then they've kept turning up, most recently as the thing Hailey Bieber and Bella Hadid reach for with capris.
What's interesting is they're not sitting still. The same sources naming them as ubiquitous are also floating what comes next — almond-toe slingbacks in Paris, heeled ballet pumps for midi skirts, even a jazz-shoe silhouette nudging in. It reads less like a changing of the guard and more like the flat holding its ground while everyone tries on alternatives around it.
Part of the appeal seems obvious: they go with almost anything, they ask nothing of you, and right now that's exactly the point. The pairs we keep coming back to are below.