We hope you love the products we recommend! All of them were independently selected by our editors. Just so you know, HuffPost UK may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page if you decide to shop from them. Oh, and FYI — prices are accurate and items in stock as of time of publication. In my house, ballet flats are a very serious subject. Call me crazy, but I consider them to be the perfect every day shoe. So when the ballet flat and Mary Jane trend starting to take off in a big way a couple of years ago, I was well prepared. I’m talking velvet Mary Janes, tabis, and an admittedly excessive crystal-embellished ballerina levels of ready. (Just be thankful I didn’t include this pair on the list in earnest.) So deep does my love for these shoes run, that when the topic of them not being snow and ice appropriate recently came up in my friendship group, I was genuinely shocked. Of course, that means …