{"id":67126,"date":"2026-08-05T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/67126\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:57:14","slug":"adidas-just-turned-the-stan-smith-into-a-ballet-flat-and-its-surprisingly-chic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/67126\/","title":{"rendered":"Adidas Just Turned the Stan Smith Into a Ballet Flat \u2014 and It’s Surprisingly Chic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nStan Smith won Wimbledon in 1972,
\nand six years later adidas decided his name
\nbelonged on a plain white tennis shoe so minimal it barely seemed
\ndesigned at all, just leather, a green heel tab, and a row of
\nperforated stripes standing in for the brand\u2019s usual raised ones.
\nThat restraint has kept the shoe in constant circulation for nearly
\nfifty years. Now adidas is asking it to do something it was never
\nbuilt for, point its toes. The Stan Smith Lo Ballet Shoes
\nswap the laces for a pair of soft straps, landing one of sneaker
\nhistory\u2019s most stubbornly plain designs squarely inside the
\nballet-flat renaissance that has spent the past few seasons taking
\nover everyone\u2019s shoe rotation.<\/p>\n

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Adidas Stan Smith Lo Ballet
\nShoes, $ 100<\/a><\/p>\n

The ballet flat\u2019s own
\npedigree goes back to 1947, when Rose Repetto
\nfirst cut a pair of soft leather slippers for her son, the dancer
\nand choreographer Roland Petit, before Brigitte Bardot and Audrey
\nHepburn carried the silhouette off the stage and onto the street
\nfor good. Balletcore\u2019s current chapter properly ignited with Miu
\nMiu\u2019s viral fall 2022 show, and the trend has only gathered speed
\nsince, with satin ballet shoes, velvet Mary Janes, and
\nrhinestone-studded mesh flats turning up on runway after runway.
\nWhat\u2019s changed most recently is the addition of an athletic accent,
\nthe so-called sneakerina, a hybrid built to give the ballet flat\u2019s
\nelegance the actual support of a trainer. Adidas has already been
\ntesting that lane with its Samba Janes, and the Stan Smith Lo
\nBallet Shoes read as the logical next chapter, proof the whole
\ncategory has graduated from niche experiment to permanent
\nfixture.<\/p>\n

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Adidas Stan Smith Lo Ballet
\nShoes, $ 100<\/a><\/p>\n

\nAdidas kept just enough of the original DNA to
\nmake the joke land. The perforated 3-Stripes are still there,
\nrunning along a shoe built from soft, premium leather instead of
\nthe usual canvas-and-rubber combination. The laces are gone
\nentirely, replaced by a hook-and-loop strap across the vamp that
\ngives the whole silhouette its Mary Jane cast, while the low-cut,
\nopen construction keeps the ankle exposed the way a proper ballet
\nflat would. It comes in the house\u2019s two most predictable colorways,
\na clean Core Black and a
\nCloud White that leans even closer to the
\noriginal design, both priced at $100. Reviewers describe the fit as
\ngenerous, running large enough that sizing down half a step is the
\ngeneral consensus, which tracks for a shoe engineered to feel like
\na flat despite the rubber sole doing the actual work underneath. It
\nis, in other words, exactly the kind of quiet reinvention the
\nStan Smith has built a five-decade career on, changing
\neverything about its job while keeping its face reassuringly the
\nsame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stan Smith won Wimbledon in 1972, and six years later adidas decided his name belonged on a plain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21254],"tags":[189,21290,48885,38561,48278,34782,50357,50356,1642,50355],"class_list":["post-67126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adidas","tag-a","tag-adidas","tag-ballet","tag-flat","tag-into","tag-just","tag-smith","tag-stan","tag-the","tag-turned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}