A post-Thanksgiving reflection on style, identity, and the pieces that stay.
Books to Blogs #13
Book: 3000 Unique Questions About Me
Question #2827: “What fashion or trend will never become outdated?
Some questions arrive right on time, and this one dropped in between Thanksgiving’s soft exhale and the holiday shopping storm. Shoppers everywhere have been toggling between leftovers and online carts, trying to balance gratitude with the best deals of the year. It’s the season of sales and sweaters, comfort food, and chaotic energy.
So when the prompt asked, What fashion or trend will never become outdated? it felt almost intentionally playful. Fashion thrives on reinvention. Trends rise, fall, resurrect themselves, and parade back into our lives with new names and a slightly different cut.
I tossed the question to one of our assistants. She blinked, thought about it, and finally said, “Honestly… everything comes back eventually.”
Fair point. Fashion is basically a boomerang with better lighting.
Still, a few classics surfaced immediately for me: business-casual staples, a good leather jacket, the crisp white shirt that rescues even the messiest morning, jeans that feel like steadfast companions.
Then a patient chimed in with the most unexpectedly perfect answer of all:
“A classic Hanes white T-shirt from the three-pack.”
It made everyone smile, because it’s true. The three-pack tee is the quiet backbone of closets everywhere. You can dress it up, dress it down, sleep in it, layer it, spill Thanksgiving gravy on it, wash it, and somehow it just keeps doing its job. It’s comfort disguised as simplicity. Timelessness in cotton form.
And maybe that’s why this question feels especially fitting as we step into the week after Thanksgiving. The noise of Black Friday has softened, Cyber Monday is nearly out of breath, and what’s left is the gentle return to regular life. It’s the moment when we notice that the pieces we reach for first on an ordinary Monday say more about our style than anything we raced to buy on sale. Timelessness tends to reveal itself in the quiet.
Because the longer I sit with the question, the more it nudges me away from closets and toward something deeper. The styles that never age aren’t really styles at all. They’re qualities we wear beneath the fabric.
Confidence that doesn’t need applause.
Ease that doesn’t need permission.
Presence that doesn’t need a trend cycle to feel relevant.
Authenticity that doesn’t need to be curated.
You know it when you see it. Someone walks into a room wearing discount denim and a plain white tee, yet somehow they radiate a grounded kind of electricity. No label can create that. No sale can compete with it.
Fashion cycles quickly. Identity moves in seasons.
So as we move into the thick of holiday shopping, here’s a softer way to choose:
Pick pieces that feel like you, not the version of you trying to keep up.
Pick fabrics that help your system settle.
Pick colors that surprise your spirit in a good way.
Pick gifts that make someone feel seen, not styled.
What never becomes outdated isn’t a trend. It’s the way we inhabit ourselves.
But if you feel inspired to grab a fresh three-pack of Hanes white tees while you’re out there?
You’ll never regret it.
Just like the real you — that look never goes out of style.
A Moment for You
As you settle into the week after Thanksgiving, here’s your turn with the question:
What fashion or trend feels timeless to you?
What do you reach for again and again — not because it’s trendy, but because it feels like home on your body?
Feel free to reflect quietly or share your answer with me.
I love hearing the pieces that tell someone’s story.
Theresa
Flexible Being
Empowering Your Journey to Healing, Clarity, and Self-Discovery.
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Theresa Martinez-Shapiro
Hello! I am Theresa Martinez-Shapiro; Wife to Robert. Founder of Flexible Being. A Master Reiki Therapist, Certified Oracle Guide, Spiritual Mentor/Guide, Intuitive Empath, Coach, and Educator. I am a fur mom to 3 cats and 1 dog – Sonny, Patches, Ryelee, and Winnie. We currently live and practice in Stockton, California. We operate three businesses – Shapiro Holistic Health and Chiropractic, Fusion Health APC, and Synergy Health MSO, where we seek to improve and change the lives of our patients and those we have the privilege of crossing paths with. My healing and mentoring journey began around 5 years old when I discovered that I was put on this planet to help others. I knew I was different, unique, and gifted. I did not see the world the same way everyone else did, and recognized I was meant to do so much more. I began to research, spending a lot of time reading & asking a lot of questions to anyone that wanted to share stories about their life experiences. I am a dreamer and had a unique relationship with the dream world. My very real, vivid & lucid dreams began turning into out-of-body experiences and unexplained occurrences. I began doing my own dream interpretations to look for patterns & a new way of deciphering life. Family members were part of many different religions, so I was educated in Catholicism, Buddhism, Metaphysics, and Native American culture & beliefs. Along the way, I took up multiple mentors that cultivated my growth and expansion of my gifts, allowing me to focus on my potential and purpose. As an adult, coworkers were unloading their life stories, internal secrets, and things that had not been shared or even spoken out loud. I began to share those experiences with my aunt & Reiki Master/Teacher, Carmen. In 2012, Carmen told me, “I think you are ready to walk the path I always knew you were meant to walk”. That saying began my obsessive journey into Reiki, Spirituality, Psychology, Intuition and Psychic gifts, Meditation and Mindfulness, Past Lives, Consciousness, Energy Medicine, Mysteries of the Universe, Moon and Sun cycles, Astrology, Numerology, Oracle Cards, Shamanism, & so much more. My journey has helped me to assist patients, clients, families, and friends discover who they have been, who they are, and who they want to become. I am expanding my reach and educating others by authoring Musings of a Flexible Being, and I look forward to sharing my journey with you. Thank you! Theresa Martinez-Shapiro Flexible Being Website: www.flexiblebeing.com Socials: Facebook: @flexiblebeingonline Instagram:@theresamartinezshapiro Instagram: @flexiblebeing
