The Know: Making Memories

By Jill

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This time of year brings two things to mind:

1. Gifts you need to get for everyone on your list (and, uh gifts you found for yourself while shopping for said gifts)
2. Show-stopping outfits to wear to holiday parties, high school reunions, or your cousin’s bar-mitzvah, which his parents just happened to plan on January 2nd. In another state. And your parents are making you miss NYE to go.

Well luckily for you, this week’s The Know hits both of those must-gets on your to-get list.

Photovisi:
There is really no one on this earth who wouldn’t love this gift.  Get it for your roommate and fill it with pics from that time you decided to turn your bed into a makeshift beer pong table. Get one for your mom and fill it with black and white photos from treasured family moments through the years (and score major Favorite Child points). Get it for that artsty friend of yours and fill it with her best photographs she’s taken (and no, I don’t mean that awesome shot she got of you doing a keg-stand). You can choose any template you want, load in the pics and order. My friend got me one of these filled with my favorite college memories for my birthday a few years back and it’s my most prized possession. Everyone needs one.

Wear Today Gone Tomorrow:
Don’t you hate it when you spend your time procrastinating that giant term paper and waste hours flipping through the pages of those fashion mags day dreaming about how nice it would be to be able to wear that designer piece to your big bash next week? How UNFAIR that Lindsay Lohan and Anna Wintour get all the insider perks! Here you are slaving away on a research paper about things that MATTER. What does LaLohan do besides spray tan?

Well, here’s the secret: celebs have been borrowing these amazing fashion pieces for their events for years.  And now we can, too. A former Lucky Magazine fashion editor has realized us regular girls love designer gowns just as much as the celebs (duh), so she’s renting them out to us. Now you can borrow a beautiful designer dress for a fraction of its retail price, risk-free. And membership is F-R-E-E. Just search (the online closet is massive!), click, order, wear, get tons of compliments (don’t forget the standard hand-on-hip red carpet skinny arm), return, repeat and still have money for dinner.

Oh, and unlike Rent The Runway (which, by the way, was created after WTGT!) that only carries dresses in sizes 0-8, this rental shop carries up to a size 14. Cheap designer gowns for all! Now that is something worth knowing about.