Whilst the website still asserts the fact that Repetto does cater to the ballerina (love the French dance instructions as you play through the acts) the range of the brand's products suggests otherwise.  At the Rainbowwave show room, though I wasn't supposed to be looking at Repetto, my eyes still got diverted by an entire case of Repetto.  Ballet flats aside, there were roomy slouchy bags, shoe-boots, brogues and T-bar heels.  It wasn't just the shapes but the sheer number of materials and colours.  Does make you go into Argos Catalogue-toy-section-browsing mode where you just go.... 'I want that one, that one and that one!'. 

On a ballet-related note, was I the only one who got much toffee-sweet pleasure out of watching the BBC adaptation of Noel Streathfield's Ballet Shoes, starring Emma Watson and Emilia Fox last Christmas?  Note to self: Must find faded floral tea dress that I have either left at my mum's house or in a hotel in Paris.... oh well, if I go to Paris and retrieve the dress and pick up a pair of Repetto's then it would be the perfect conclusion to this post...