Kristy Wieber and Lisa Delorme were invited to a wedding about a year ago and faced a prospect familiar to many women: buying a designer dress for the event, "a dress I'm going to wear once and then it will sit in my closet making me feel guilty for years," says Wieber. The experience led the pair to think of solutions, culminating in the launch of
Rent frock Repeat last week.
The innovative service offers a wide range of designer dresses, in sizes ranging from 0-14 or 16 in most cases, for rent. Wieber says the pair was inspired by a similar service they encountered in the US that did not ship to Canada.
The business just launched last week, so it is still early to measure success, but Wieber notes that before they officially launched they already has over 200 followers on each of Facebook and Twitter, and that since the launch, "Things are moving so quickly and growing so quickly, it's an absolute certainty we'll do some hiring soon." Wieber says the pair, currently working out of Delorme's Scarborough Bluffs-area home, are now identifying in which area of the business an additional employee would be most effective.
Writer: Edward Keenan
Source: Kristy Wieber, co-founder, Rent frock Repeat