Sneakerinas and the slimming of sneakers

But this time, they're not necessarily the delicate satin flats that you might associate with, oh, I don't know, Swan Lake or the Nutcracker.

Fashion brands are taking the shape, ribbons, straps, and soft colors of ballet shoes and putting them on to sneakers, creating a strange but surprisingly wearable hybrid, and people are buying them up.

I, for one, did not know that these shoes existed.

until just a few days ago.

And when I say a hybrid shoe that is part ballet slipper and part sneaker, that is exactly what they are.

So, why are people buying these things? There's a term for it too, I think they're called sneakerinas, which is a combination of ballerina and sneaker.

I first started noticing it when I was also out shopping with my girlfriend.

And more and more brands, what we noticed is, were releasing new designs that genuinely looked like ballet shoes and a sneaker.

So, you know, some were sneakers that looked like ballet flats.

while others were just chunky soles, shoes with ribbons and ankle straps added to them.

Yeah, that's the other design I've seen.

So one, and by the way, yeah, those super, super thick, thick, thick soled shoes are still popular, right?

Yeah, still popular.

But nowadays people are looking for more comfort over like just purely functionality.

So you might see the sole is getting thinner and thinner.

And that is why the ballet elements are like jumping in.

I don't know because I've seen the super thick chunky ones with the ribbons and almost the open top like a ballet shoe.

So that's a hybrid.

I don't know if they call those chunk arenas or what they call them, but that's also a hybrid combination.

All of this to me reminds me of opening the fridge door and wondering what can I cook and taking what you have in your fridge and putting it in the same pot.

Just randomly putting them together, right? It kind of feels.

Yeah, that's why I think the hybrid is the perfect word for this trend.

It's not really a ballet shoe pretending to be a sneaker.

It's a sneaker kind of borrowing this visual language of ballet.

And we're also seeing this idea across quite a few brands.