Ao dai rental service is in high demand on days before Tet
Ao Dai rental shops are crowded with people trying on, renting, and buying dresses in the days leading up to Tet. Many shops are open until 10pm and still have not run out of customers.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Trang has a shop renting ao dai and party dresses located on Ngo Quyen Street, Hung Dung Ward. In the days before Tet, although the expected date of birth is approaching, the number of customers booking appointments to try on and rent dresses has increased dramatically, so she mobilized her husband to help. After 10 pm on the 24th of the lunar calendar, Ms. Trang was still busy advising customers on choosing to rent ao dai.
Ms. Trang said that on normal days, if they are regular customers, they contact online to choose a shirt or dress, then come to the store for me to do makeup and if they need photography services, my husband will take care of it. As for new customers, they usually come to the store to try on and choose models. For about a week now, the number of customers renting clothes has doubled or tripled compared to normal days, so I have to order more shipping services for regular customers, and directly advise new customers who come to rent for the first time. "The rental price is 50-80 thousand VND/set of Ao Dai on normal days, during Tet the rental price is 120 thousand VND/set and there is rental throughout Tet," Ms. Trang said.
On Vo Thi Sau Street in Truong Thi Ward, there are many shops that rent and sell Ao Dai. These days, the number of people coming and going to these shops is continuous and crowded. Customers often come in groups and most of them are still students.
Ms. Hoang Thi Nga and her daughter went to a shop selling and renting ao dai on Vo Thi Sau Street to rent two ao dai sets for their plan to go on a spring trip in early 2025 for 150,000 VND/set. The shop rents from Tet until the 10th of January at most. Ms. Nga said that to choose a satisfactory ao dai, both mother and daughter came quite early, chose the design and tried on the clothes. There were quite a lot of renters, buyers and choosers, and the aisles between the rows of clothes were narrow, so sometimes they had to jostle quite hard.
The price to rent a set of ao dai for 24 hours is 120,000 - 150,000 VND depending on the material and newness of the dress. Ms. Nga rented 2 sets for 150,000 VND each. The store requires a deposit of 500,000 VND and the storage of citizen identification information. If you rent during Tet, there will be an additional charge of 50,000 VND, not including accessories.
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Accessories that go with the ao dai are also quite diverse, from scarves, head scarves to fans, flower branches, silk scarves, conical hats, etc., all of which are available at the store for 20,000-40,000 VND. The store owner said that due to the large number of customers, the store is open from morning to night, and plans to serve until the 28th of the lunar calendar.
During this time, there are quite a lot of customers renting in groups, mainly young people renting to take Tet photo sets. Individual customers often rent throughout Tet, each person renting from 1-3 Ao Dai sets to go out for the first spring of the year.
