Impeccable. Clothes hire for special occasions. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
For years you could rent clothes for the groom and ushers. In Hatch End, England, we have a shop called Impeccable.
Here's an idea. When you are travelling on a budget airline with limited suitcase space. Rent a dress. No need to pack it up for home. No need for more wardrobe space. For wedding guests, as well as the groom and ushers, who have been doing this for years.
On the other hand, to buy second hand cheaply from a charity shop, and then donate to that shop or another charity shop in another country fulfils some of the same objectives. I've heard it suggested that if you go to a charity shop in a smart residential or shopping location yyou are likely to get good quality and designer clothes.
However, sometimes the pricier items are left untouched in shops in cheaper areas because the customers won't pay the higher prices asked by the canny staff who go online to check designer brand labels. Nowadays the charity shops offer goods online.
I always pack one fancy evening dress, even if I have no plans to eat out anywhere fancy. You never know what might happen. Ona plane to India, we were delayed several hours and got to chat to other travellers. One of the Indians was on his way to a family wedding and invited me. I suddenly needed something really grand to wear. And not something revealing.
On another occasion I travelled from the UK to Singapore and had tropical clothes for Singapore, then we extended our flights and took a trip on to New Zealand where it was ski season in the UK summer. I needed ski clothes in a hurry, not another set at large prices. I ended up in a charity shop. Clothes problem solved.
The only difficulty was packing the bulky jacket. No hire shops were available for clothes at the ski area of Queenstown at that time. But you could look at collecting hire clothes from the capital or airport city on arrival in a foreign country, or having them sent to you family, friends, or colleagues, if you attend a conference with a last night grand ball.
On another occasion I was at a hotel in the UK for a murder mystery weekend. The opening night was a mock wedding. Americans arrived well organized, with fancy dress in their luggage. Unfortunately, their airline had misrouted their luggage which was due to arrive the next day, after the dinner.
Party Hire Shop For Conferences
Another solution is from Swanwick Witers Summer School in Derbyshire. They have a fancy dress night on a theme sometimes, the FORTIES (1940S) or Sixties. The committee of the Summer School arrange for a local party shop to deliver a rack of fancy dress clothes. In some cases you have to order and pay in advance. The copany collects everybody's party clothes the next day. This is good for those traavelling by train and not wanting to carry extra clothes in additon to the books they have bought, or brought but not sold.
https://www.hurrcollective.com/
https://thevolte.com/dresses
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