Black Ballet Flats

Black Ballet Flats are the most commonly worn shoes for female characters in As The Orb Turns. This is because when drawing the characters, Lotz would put girls in ballet flats because they were feminine and easy to draw; black because it was a simple, nondescript color. Eventually, this became a bit of an in-joke, even being referred to in-story (Lorelei's First Day, Teacher's Pet).

Christine Peck is notable for defying this trend. However, even she has given in to wearing them occasionally, such as when she was dressing up for Mr. Markopoulos, whom she had a crush on, in Teacher's Pet.

Gilbert presumably also wore them when he turned into a girl in ''Gilbert or Gabrielle? He Changed His Sex!''