Clovis store helping you be fashionable at events without breaking the bank

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- With lawsuit play accelerated approaching successful the Central Valley, Clovis' best-kept concealed is offering you glam for immoderate juncture without taking up abstraction successful your closet.

"We've got marque caller dresses to vintage dresses and everything successful between," says Dresses Worn Once Owner Michelle Bertao.

Rather than spending hundreds connected a formal per function, rent it astatine Dresses Worn Once.

"You find a dress, you wage the rental fee, you wage the deposit," Bertao said. "You deterioration your formal astatine the event, you bring it backmost the adjacent week after."

Bertao came up with the conception erstwhile she and her friends had daughters successful precocious school.

"One of my friends her girl wanted to spell to each formal, each prom and she was conscionable saying, 'I'm a teacher, and I can't spend these dresses each time.'"

So Michelle thought of starting a assemblage closet.

"That turned into maine going onto Facebook Marketplace, uncovering utilized dresses, getting donations from my friends and pulling them together," she said.

The conception was specified a hit, it turned into a brick-and-mortar.

Located disconnected Clovis Avenue adjacent Barstow, Dresses Worn Once offers ceremonial deterioration to rent for immoderate occasion.

Rental fees mean astir $40.

"I privation them to consciousness comfy successful what they're wearing and beauteous for that 1 night, their peculiar event," Bertao said.

Sizes scope from zero to 20.

Once you driblet disconnected the dress, you get your deposit back.

"Unless you resistance it done the mud oregon spill reddish vino connected it, conscionable bring it backmost and I volition instrumentality attraction of it," Bertao said.

You tin publication an assignment -- accessories are disposable to effort connected oregon purchase.

"I've got groups of girls coming successful present -- they instrumentality implicit the full store and they conscionable person truthful overmuch amusive playing dress-up," Bertao said.

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