Summary:

The comic begins with Fluttershy and Rarityon a train bound for Manehattan. While Rarity is excited to immerse herself in the big city's culture and arts again, Fluttershy is on her way to an animal shelter symposium. Fluttershy is nervous about meeting with shelter directors with more experience than her, but Rarity assures her that she has been running her own shelter phenomenally and that she has drive and confidence.

Upon arriving at the train station, Rarity is horrified to discover the old and gaudy fashions from when she first started designing have come back in style. Due to the very cyclical nature of fashion, current trends have looped around on themselves, and Rarity doesn't want to repeat her own work. Fluttershy suggests Rarity make her own designs rather than follow the trends, but Rarity says to ignore trends is to become dated. While Rarity despondently checks in at the hotel, Fluttershy heads to her shelter seminar.

At the convention hall, Fluttershy listens to the animal shelter lecture and discovers there are many logistical aspects to running a shelter that she didn't know about. After the presentation, she voices her concerns to a fellow shelter director, and he sympathizes with her, considering having never opened a shelter in the first place if he had known beforehand about all the procedure involved.

Back in the city, Rarity continues to turn her nose up at the garish designs everyone is wearing and laments the idea of recycling her old ideas. She wanders into Coco Pommel's clothing boutique, and the two catch up over tea and discuss the recent Manehattan trends. Coco is more nostalgic for the retro fashions that have come back in style than Rarity, and like Fluttershy, she tells Rarity she doesn't have to follow the trends if she doesn't want to.

Just then, Fluttershy bursts in and voices her frustration at all the things she's done wrong in opening her animal shelter. When she says, "If I knew then what I know now, I would have done things so differently", Rarity gets an idea. Even though some of her fashions will be recycled from when she first started, they'll be realized with the experience she has now. With Coco's help and Fluttershy as her model, Rarity designs a multitude of new fashions that incorporate the resurging trends of the past and her present experience as a designer and growth from her past mistakes.

When the three are done, Fluttershy bemoans everything she has to learn about properly running an animal shelter. Rarity tells her even though she didn't build her shelter the way it should have been, she built it her way, and the other shelter directors should be looking to her for new ideas.

The next day, Fluttershy returns to the convention hall for the second day of the seminar. During the presentation, she interrupts the lecturer and says instead of focusing on what current shelter owners have done wrong, they should take the lessons they learned and pass them on to future shelter owners. Fluttershy's idea of creating a program to help ponies start their own animal shelters is met with overwhelming positive reception by the other shelter directors.

Later that day, Rarity debuts her new fashions at Coco's boutique, and they are also met with positive reception. As Rarity shares some of her other modernized designs with Coco, Fluttershy returns and shares the success she had at the seminar. The two toast to learning from the past and repeating it.