Trend alert: Would you wear fitness flats?
Puma's Lily Ballet flats collection
Wearing flats around the city can feel almost like walking around barefoot—and not in the lightweight-running shoe, back-to-nature kind of way.
Your feet end up sore, your joints jostled. Not to mention the blisters that often form from not wearing socks.
One solution: Puma’s new Lily Ballet Flat ($74.95 at Nordstrom).
The shoe is one option in a growing category of fitness flats. Athletic companies, like Adidas by Stella McCartney, and Nike (with totally gorgeous and cushy gladiator sandals) are drawing on the in-studio footwear concept introduced by Blake Brody and taking it one step further—onto the sidewalk outside.
So, not only does the nautical-inspired Puma Lily Ballet look super cute with your yoga pants, it’s also cushion-y and supportive, since it’s made by sneaker-minded designers.
One downside: Puma’s flats are so sneaker-like in appearance, they probably won’t transition well to dinner.
Would you wear them? Tell us in the Comments, below!
The Puma ones don’t appeal to me but the Nike ones you linked to are ridiculously cute and I would rock the hell out of those! In general though I think there are some really cute middle ground options out there and it is a trend I fully support…
I think they’re really cute. The Stella shoes for Adidas are *hideous*, but the Nike line has some cute ones. I would love to get some of these Puma flats… but $75?
Yeah – that’s not going to happen.
If I were going to spend that much on a pair of ballet flats – I’d get Tom’s every time. At least I know that $ is going to help someone else as well.
I had some stella for adidas fitness flats a few years ago that were gorgeous, with really nice pleating across the toe, in her signature lily grey. I wish those would come back! Big, big fan of fitness flats.
I think the red ones are super cute :) x