Why fashion rental could be the best way to pep up your midlife wardrobe
Thought renting was only for 20-something influencers? Think again
Alyson Walsh in a rented tweed jacket
Credit: Clara Molden
As someone who spent their formative years in second-hand clothes and hand-me-downs, I haven’t always found being dressed in other people’s clothes a positive experience. Violins at the ready: at school, someone recognised the highly distinctive, lime-green Crimplene dress with puffed, floral print sleeves I had been proudly wearing until they announced to the rest of the class that it belonged to Erica Jackson (not her real name), my mum’s friend’s daughter.