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Ballet Flats
FlatsFeminine
RevivalStage 7 of 7 · trending up
attention 47wikipedia 10breadth 98persistence 96velocity 100Always shown with the index, never as a lone score.
Who is wearing it?
Age data coming soonAwaiting our demographic source. We don't guess.
Where is it popular?
- Wyoming 100
- Washington DC 99
- New York 95
- New Jersey 69
Ranked by share of each state's own searches, not by market size. Small states surface here often for that reason.
How widespread is it?
Regions (US)high (0.98)
RetailInsufficient evidence
AgeInsufficient evidence
Why it's happening
Revival cycle36%
Hype-driven growth35%
Utility-driven adoption29%
Bottom line
Coming back. There is a prior cycle on record, a trough after it, and the trend is running at about half its record again. The earlier cycle is doing the work here.
1Discovery2Rising3Peak4Cooling5Normalized6Dormant↻Revival
Phase history (5 years)
2022-01 normalized→2023-01 rising→2024-01 revival→2025-01 normalized→2026-01 revival→2026-06 revival(retrospective diagnosis; see How it works)
Based on Google Trends + WikipediaModerate evidenceUpdated 2026-07-26Evidence gaps: retail sell-through, resale prices, street-style imagery, age dataHow we compute this →
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