Wantable Accessories: $40-36/month, jewelry & accessories
I paid $28 after promo
Wantable is a subscription box company with a slightly different model. You subscribe to one of three boxes (accessories, make-up and intimates), fill out an extensive survey and then receive items based on what you wrote. You get to specifically say what you don’t want to get (e.g. no watches, scarves, gold-tone or funky hobo jewelry). If you don’t like what you get, you can send it back for credit. At $40 ($36 after the first month) it’s expensive, but I bought it when they had a 30%-off promo, so I only paid $28. I was happy enough with what I got for $28 – but would not have been for $40.
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I specified I wanted only jewelry, items that were classic or mixed, and a couple of other things I can’t remember. I got four pieces. They all came very nicely wrapped in these little bags. Alas, they are all branded “Wantable”, so you can’t really give them out as gifts (specially after blogging about them Image may be NSFW.
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The first piece I unwrapped was this fray necklace (the pieces all have names, but I threw away the booklet that came with them). It has brass chains and gray suede frays.
At first, I was appalled. I’m 45. I wrote that in my questionnaire. This is way too young fo rme. But then I thought, if I don’t wear frays now, when will I? It’s not like I’m getting any younger. My kids already think I’m a hippie (and yes, I’ve tried to explain that being a liberal and being a hippie are different things, but my daughter doesn’t even pretend to listen to anything I say), so why not? I decided to like it, but…
It sheds. Or rather, it insists in becoming disassembled. The suede frays keep falling off. The jump rings are not well closed. I’ve already lost one of them and I really am going to have to spend some time and adjust them all. Which sort of defeats the purpose of buying pre-made jewelry.
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A single fray, fallen but not lost (yet)
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Yes, all my clothing is decorated with cat feathers the little pieces of down that get out from the seams of my pillows & comforter. Isn’t it chic?
The other item I got is a magnifying glass necklace. It’s all brass (or brass looking) and rather heavy. All of us liked this. And it’s totally something I’ll wear – even though my daughter thinks I shouldn’t. I’m not taking fashion advice from a 12-year-old!
Update: every time I’ve worn this I’ve gotten compliments, even from strangers.
The other two items were much less successful. So much so that I put them away somewhere far away, and I completely forgot where they are. I’ll probably regift them to someone who doesn’t read my blog – which is pretty much everyone I know.
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This is another I’m-going-to-say brass bracelet, in gold tone. Look, let’s be honest here. I never took a class on metallurgy. I only know what “metallurgy” means because my dad worked at a metallurgic factory – though I never quite understood what he did there. I know they “disappeared” lots of people from there and kept a small secret detention/torture center in the back (this was Argentina in the ’70s), but that’s not really relevant here. Back to the point, maybe this is steel, maybe it’s iron, maybe it’s brass – I don’t really know, I’m just calling it brass.
The bracelet’s issue, however, it’s not the metal – though the hook is a little bit rough, so maybe part of it is -, but how small it is. If you’re skinny, it should fit you. If you’re not, it won’t. It’s also not particularly attractive and rather uncomfortable (see hook issue). Both my daughters rejected it. But at least this wasn’t a horrible piece of jewelry. Not like these earrings:
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They look ugly to you? They look even worse in person. The “gems” are very white plastic. The edges are rough and they look super cheap. Plus they are sooo white. OK, maybe in the summer, if you are very tanned and wearing all white – maybe porting a pair of super-large white rim sunglasses, these would look OK. Or not. The worst part is that someone spent time making this monstrosity.
Fortunately, not everyone agrees with me and I was able to swap these for a bunch of perfume samples!
Wantable has great customer service. They did offer to take the box back (but I hate sending stuff back) and cancellation was super easy. After I cancelled, they offered me 30% off to come back (it was still during the promo-offer period), and I did consider giving them another try. But then I found a great offer from Cate & Chloe and I’m trying them this month instead (update: C&C did not impress).
Do you subscribe to Wantable? What do you think of their jewelry?