Buying Jimmy Choo Pine Flat comes down to a few checks you can do from the product page. Everything else is preference. A leather sole looks better and grips worse. Rubber if you actually walk. A flat with no heel counter will slip at the back no matter the size. The groups below run from the decision that matters most to the ones you make afterwards.

What decides this is toe box, sole flexibility and heel counter. Everything else is preference. Two from the first group show the range: Tibi's Herbert Camouflage Loafer at $545, and Ulla Johnson's Gracie Hand Knotted Ballet Flat - Miele at $595. The first is the easy entry point; the second is where the money goes. A flat with no heel counter will slip at the back no matter the size. A leather sole looks better and grips worse. Rubber if you actually walk. A higher price mostly buys materials and finishing, and occasionally it buys nothing at all.

A flat with a longer trouser needs a visible ankle or the leg disappears. From the second group, Cult Gaia's Fiore Loafer ($528) is the one that earns its place, because it works in more than one context without being restyled. The third group is smaller and deliberately narrower, flats, for the decisions you make after the main one. None of this needs the whole group. One piece from each is usually enough.

There are 20 flats here from 12 brands, $55 to $1080, all in stock when this was written. We would not buy all of them, and neither should you. Sperry's Port Driver 2 Loafer at $55 is the low-risk way in, and Khaite's Miles Loafer in Vintage Brown Leather at $1080 only makes sense if this is a category you already use constantly. On jimmy choo pine flat specifically: the difference between the top and the bottom of this list is real but smaller than the price gap suggests. Nothing here is included because it is famous, and price is not used as a proxy for quality anywhere on this page. If you take one thing away: the piece you reach for on a rushed morning is the one that was worth the money.