Make your money and your wardrobe go further

Fashion doesn’t have to be put on hold during a credit crunch. You can now keep up with all of the latest jewellery trends, even on a budget, with Blubangle.com. The online jewellery rental service allows you to dramatically extend your jewellery collection overnight by borrowing from a wide range of high quality fashion items including stylish necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings for a fraction of the price that it would cost to purchase them, keeping you ‘bang on trend’ without the hefty price tag to match.

Cherie Lehman, co-founder of Blubangle.com explains: “Keeping up with the latest trends can be an expensive business. It’s bad enough having to fork out for a new dress for that all important office Christmas party or friend’s birthday bash, let alone having to dig even deeper into your purse to buy the jewellery to match.

“We want to make fashion affordable to everyone while giving consumers variety and choice. Giving our customers the opportunity to swap items as often as they wish means they can keep up with the latest fashion trends – eradicating the need to horde items which can easily date and you might never wear again. Women watching their fashion budget under the current economic climate don’t need to purchase more expensive outfits this season – instead they can just swap jewellery at any time to create completely different looks with their current wardrobe.”

Subscribers to Blubangle.com can keep up with the latest trends by choosing from four membership levels starting at £14.99 per month (which allows you to borrow up to £200 worth of jewellery per month). Members will benefit from instant access to a fabulous range of jewellery and can keep items for as long as they need them and have fun swapping items as often as they like at no additional cost. Jewellery pieces are delivered straight to your door in beautiful packaging and return postage for all items is free of charge. Jewellery can also be borrowed for special occasions like weddings from £6.99 for a week.

Anyone can purchase jewellery online from Blubangle.com’s jewellery outlet. Members also receive an additional 10 per cent discount on top of already heavily discounted jewellery, so if you fall in love with an item you’ve borrowed it is possible to own it.

“We realise that actually borrowing items rather than purchasing them outright means a bit of a cultural shift for the UK market, but with the current financial situation in the UK, consumers are looking at alternative ways to cut back spending but still maintain the same lifestyle and swapping is starting to become big once again. Borrowing handbags and jewellery is really big in the US, as highlighted in the recent ‘Sex and the City’ movie, and we believe there is probably a ‘Carrie Bradshaw’ in most women just waiting to get out and we want to replicate the success of this concept in the UK”, concludes Lehman.

Find out more at Bluangle.com.