Why spend hundreds on dresses that will only gather dust?

Mum-of-one Nicole, who works as the medical head for a pharmaceutical company, started her dress-hiring journey after searching for themed party-wear, and she hasn’t stopped since.

I rented my first dress in January last year when I was going to a Roaring Twenties-themed event, and I had absolutely nothing in my wardrobe.

Since then I think I’ve rented about seven or eight dresses for different occasions.

Another reason I started renting was because most of the black tie dresses in my wardrobe are from

before I had my son, who is now two, so they don’t fit as well at the moment.

I didn’t want to invest hundreds of pounds in lots of different dresses I hope won’t fit me again. I wanted to be sensible and not just have something sitting in my wardrobe gathering dust.

The dresses I borrow are always

very good quality and easily cost more than £200 each. So, if I had to spend that on a new dress for every event, I would have spent thousands by now. That’s just not something I would do.

I tell anyone who will listen about renting – all my friends think it’s a great idea, and a couple of friends have started hiring their own outfits.