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"  Getting the most out of a fashion rental is about identifying those instances when a one-time use really is your best option. Just because college is over and your social calendar isn&amp;#039;t peppered with formals and mixers anymore, that doesn&amp;#039;t mean your renting days are over. Here are 10 times when it may make more sense to rent than to buy. \u00A0 1. When you want to wear white but you&amp;#039;re kind of a mess. You know white looks amazing on you \u2014 it makes you look tan and clean and pulled together like no other color can. You also know that you are kind of a mess, and the chances of you keeping anything white clean past the first wear are slim to none. Rent it and let someone else worry about upkeep. There&amp;#039;s also a chocolate fountain with your name on it.\u00A0 2. When you&amp;#039;re a bridesmaid but your dresses don&amp;#039;t have to match. It&amp;#039;s such a blessing when brides don&amp;#039;t make their bridesmaids wear matching dresses. But there are still bound to be restrictions (color, length, skin exposure,etc.), and even if you find a dress you genuinely like, you&amp;#039;re probably never going to wear it again because when you see it haning in your closet after the wedding, you won&amp;#039;t see a cute dress that looks great on you. You&amp;#039;ll see a bridesmaid&amp;#039;s dress and there&amp;#039;s no way you ware wearing that out to a bar or a party, especially if someone who saw you in that dress at the wedding is going to be there. \u00A0 3. When you want to wear one of those all-over kaleidoscope prints. They&amp;#039;re awesome, they&amp;#039;re super trendy, and even if people don&amp;#039;t like your dress they will still feel compelled to compliment you because it&amp;#039;s so fantastically unusual and arresting that they can&amp;#039;t NOT say something. And yet, cool as that dress is, you can probably only wear it once. em&amp;gt;All Dresses Available at\u00A0Rent The Runway 4. When you&amp;#039;re meeting his parents for the first time. You wanna be yourself, but you also know you can only make a first impression once and you want to feel them out before you let your freak flag fly for real. Go for something a litttle more conservative, like a fitted Narciso Rodriguez shift dress. They will be floored by how chic and put together you are and they will hold that image of you in their minds the next time they see you in your usual jeans and a tee shirt. \u00A0 5. When you&amp;#039;ve already got a great dress, but you need accessories to make it feel fresh again. Good accessories can transform any outfit. If you already have a dress you love, but it&amp;#039;s starting to feel a little tired, try renting some jewelry, a cool clutch, even a fur wrap to make it feel new and special again.  All Accessories Available at\u00A0Rent The Runway 6. When you&amp;#039;re taking a vacation from yourself.\u00A0 Maybe one of your friends is having her bachelorette party in Vegas. Or maybe you and a friend are just taking a trip for the weekend. Maybe it&amp;#039;s not Vegas. Maybe it&amp;#039;s LA, or New York, or Miami. Wherever you&amp;#039;re headed, it&amp;#039;s more than a vacation from your normal life, it&amp;#039;s a vacation from your self. Vacation is a safe space, far from the people you know who might otherwise judge you. It&amp;#039;s time to mix it up. Go crazy. Get wild. Wear a real Herve. \u00A0 7. When you are getting married and you want to wear real diamonds. Weddings are fucking expensive and after all the time and money you&amp;#039;ve spent finding and fitting the perfect dress, you don&amp;#039;t want to skimp on the jewelry. Your mom offers you her diamonds, but studs and a tennis bracelet don&amp;#039;t really hold their own against the dramatic grandeur of your gown. It&amp;#039;s your big day and you want Oscars jewelry--the kind of jewelry that comes with it&amp;#039;s own private guard to escort it down the red carpet. The rental won&amp;#039;t be cheap, but after everything you&amp;#039;ve already spent a few hundred dollars more for a really amazing pair of diamond drop earrings or a baroque pave diamond cuff is just a drop in the bucket.  All Jewelry Available at Haute Vault 8. When you realize the person you&amp;#039;ve been dating has already seen all your best outfits. You&amp;#039;re at that weird middle point in the relationship where you&amp;#039;ve been dating for a while, but you&amp;#039;re still trying to impress him. You just need a little more time (and 1 or 2 really killer dresses) to get over the hump. \u00A0 9. When you&amp;#039;ve got a lot of interviews and you need a grown up status bag to set the tone. When you&amp;#039;re looking for work, you&amp;#039;ve got to pound the pavement--networking and going on multiple interviews. Often you have to go back 2, 3, even 4 times for just one job. Each time you&amp;#039;re meeting with someone progressively more senior in the organization who has less time to fully evaluate you and relies more and more on the way you present yourself to determine whether or not you would make a good hire. A really nice, professional, grown up bag can help you sell yourself. You can worry about maintaining the illusion and buying one after you get the job.  All Bags Available at Bag Borrow or Steal 10. When it&amp;#039;s time for you high-school reunion and you really want to rub it in their smug faces.\u00A0 High school sucked, but it&amp;#039;s reunion time and you really want to Romy and Michele that bitch. Rent a dress, get a blow out, pad your resume a little if you need to, and tell them all to suck it.\u00A0    \u00A0    Video Credit: Touchstone\u00A0 Best Online Resources for Fashion Rentals: Rent The Runway\u00A0\u2014 dresses, evening bags, costume jewelry, and small furs Haute Vault\u00A0\u2014 fine jewelry, watches for men and women Bag Borrow or Steal\u00A0\u2014 designer bags Albright\u00A0\u2014 great for formal occassions with everything from dresses to coats to bags and shoes. You can&amp;#039;t view the collection online, but the archive is massive and includes everything from Chanel to Balenciaga. You can send them a pinterest board of the look you are going for and their stylists will send you pics of what they have available and then ship it wherever you need. \u00A0 Do you have fashion or style questions? Email our Style Editor, Charles Manning, at cmanning (at) hearst (dot) com or tweet your questions to @charlesemanning "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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