![]() “There were no risks if I didn't love something or it didn't fit correctly-I would just send it back. ![]() “The Unlimited option gave me the confidence that I would always find something to wear, even on days where I was feeling the lowest about my body changes,” she says. Lauren Curtis, a fellow mom of two and Unlimited subscriber in Brooklyn, expressed the same thing. And I was far from the only one who used it this way. My favorite part of having endless options was trying on a pair of jeans, discovering they didn’t fit, and-instead of throwing them across the room in a rage-induced tear fit that sent me into a confidence spiral-easily swapping them out and getting a new pair that did fit. Because of my fluctuating sizes, I was sure I was using my plan, well, unlimitedly. When I first read the news, I was disappointed. It didn't feel like a total surprise: maybe because I could somehow sense a move away from the plan in its current iteration was coming-apparently it was in the works long before the pandemic, which was tough on rental services generally (at one point during the COVID crisis, WSJ reported RTR's subscriber activity was down nearly two-thirds.) The company also says only 4% percent of Unlimited users were swapping out their items more than 16 times a month, so the shift away from Unlimited is to address the fact that many users were paying for more items than they were using-the new plans will offer 4, 8, or 16 items per month rather than the old “infinity.” Just as I went back to work after my second maternity leave, I got the notification that the Unlimited Swap plan was coming to a close. Armed with pieces that looked great on me and that I genuinely loved, I felt like me. I didn’t feel like the out-of-place mom on a trip with my mostly childless girlfriends, or like I didn’t belong at a hip brunch spot. Slowly the confidence began extending to all areas of my life. When I felt polished, I put myself out there and I did in fact make friends. Once I felt like I was put together again, I wasn’t as intimidated by the groups of moms who seemed to have all known each other for years even though our kids were all babies. It might sound silly, but having the ability to regularly acquire new clothes at the drop of a hat from labels I loved helped me stop feeling so unsure of myself. Whenever I attempted to be social, I was insecure about everything-my parenting, my postpartum hair loss, the fact that I didn’t have good mom friends. For that first year after my older daughter was born, I felt house-bound, held captive by a schedule of constant nursing and naps that made doing anything beyond errand-running difficult. Reinvigorating my wardrobe via short-term rentals changed more than just how I dressed.
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