Dress Up Consignment Boutique

My wife shops here on a regular basis and she always looks stylish.

Brought my best friend by to check out the selection and found a gorgeous silk dress for $ 16! It’s gonna fit great after I lose about 8 more lbs! Dress Up is always well-​organized and Renee makes it easy to find exactly what you’re looking for without sifting through every rack. I’ll keep coming back until I’m too small to shop here any more!

Love the store, Clothing sizes are from 12 — 5x. Great prices.
Renee is a great owner. Very helpful. Made shopping for clothes fun…

I found Dress Up consignment about 2 months ago. I was taking my clothes to Sola Lucy in Montclair but she hardly took anything of mine to sell, even though I had clothes from Chico’s, Nordstroms, Calvin Klein, etc. The last time I went there the saleswomwn acted like my clothes were trailer trash quality. I decided that was it. I was bent on finding somewhere else to sell my clothes. Thank heavens I found Dress Up consignment. She takes everything I have unless there are spots or stains. Every time I go there, I end up buying beautiful things because she has lovely things at such reasonable prices. The clothes are stylish and look like new. If you are a larger woman and live in the East Bay, this is the place to shop!

Renee is a true retail professional. Most consignment shops that I have dealt with are really pretty awful and they are very disorganized and unfortunately I have even dealt with a couple that were very dishonest. She is extremely honest, has wonderful clothing that is in great shape and still in fashion, she has excellent customer service, and you can get your clothes back if you do not want to donate and they don’t mysteriously disappear. Her pricing is very fair and reasonable and it is great to have a shop that specializes in larger sizes. I have recently lost a lot of weight and it has been terrific to turn my old clothes into some new clothes. she sets an appointment with you and you feel like she really knows what will sell and how to price things. She has some new things also and I just love love her purses and jewelry. And she does such a nice job with merchandising when you walk in you feel like you went into a high ebd boutique. All of her pricing is done on the computer and she generates real price tags and I don’t know anyone else in consignment it does that. Plus you get a printout of everything that you consign so it’s very easy to keep track of. If you call her she always let you know how much you have waiting for you and is always prompt and giving you your money which is another issue I’ve had with other consignment shops. She definitely deserves 5 stars for the way that she runs her shop.

A great find for the curvy lady!
Dress up Consignment is a consignment shop that specializes in Plus Size Clothing, sizes 12 – 26, that is tucked away in a small shopping center in Castro Valley. reasonably priced, great customer services, and great seasonal selection of clothing and outerwear.
I recently cosigned a huge amount of clothing here and have been happy with the service as well as finding a few times to take home with each trip. Rene is smart about what she takes in and keeps a great selection of new jewelry and purses as well.
As a shrinking woman, it is helpful to be able to sell some of my nicer more fashionable clothes that I felt unsure about sending to Thrift Town. Shrinking sizes means needing to buy all new clothes, Dress up Consignment has given me the opportunity to recoup some of the money lost in a wardrobe that no longer fits.

I thought this was a great place at first also, I actually thought that the owner valued my business and friendship. Then I guess I didn’t read my contract and asked to have my things pulled because of an unexpected 4 month trip with my husband on sabbatical. The owner never said a word to me about the contract requirements at the time I asked her to pull my things because they would be otherwise donated before we returned home. Unaware of her being angry at me I went to her shop today and she refused to take my clothes or ever do business with me again. I think a conversation about or reminder of my contract would have been nice. I am not a difficult person to get along with. I even gave her a pair of pants or two, she said she needed and did not ask her to pay for them. I am hurt by her lack of communicating and lack of compassion. She is not the person I would have thought she was before. I would not recommend doing business with her because she can be very thoughtless.

Yesterday I found out about this plus size consignment boutique on a facebook forum and I had to check it out. I googled and found nothing but this Unilocal page.
I decided to go and check out the store in person. When I got to Castro Valley I couldn’t find the store. There are three different parking lots with little stores in them all in the same area. I called the store and a sweet sounding lady gave me directions to which lot the store was in (the L shape lot with the gym near the street).
I was able to locate the store and went inside. I slipped in the back and started looking around. The store had three rounders of clothing, one marked 50% off, two racks with clothing on each side, a back wall of dresses, and a corner of shoes. There were also new purses and jewelry. I found a few things and went to try them on. There are three LARGE fitting rooms. This was very nice because there is actually room to move around while trying on the clothing.
A woman and her husband run this boutique. They were both very nice. I overheard their conversations with a few different customers who seemed to be regulars. I like that they build relationships with their customers.
I was offered a consignment informations sheet, which gives all the details about bringing back clothing to consign. I will be doing this soon.
The only reason I am giving them 4 stars instead of 5 is because of the lack of a website or a facebook page. I feel that having these two items would bring in the younger plus size crowd and more contemporary plus size fashion.

WHAT A FIND!!! Super excited to find them. Sizes from 12−5x. Perfect for the curvy woman. Great vintage jewelry. Dressing area and décor is very nice and comfy. It shows they care. My favorite thing was when ever I shop it’s always so hot in the store. The temperature in the store was perfect. I stayed and enjoyed shopping and bought. Dress up consignment you have a new regular customer. I had to Unilocal and tell all my friends. Help support local businesses!!!

I love coming in here, both to browse and to consign. The owner is super friendly and has a very fair consigning policy. She really strives to have happy shoppers and happy consigners and does a great job of putting out the cutest clothes in plus sizes (I think it’s 11 and up), a nice selection of shoes, lots of great handbags. Today, I even saw some Coach bags. And everything is reasonably priced. To top it off, it looks, feels and smells nice and fresh in her shop; the dressing rooms are some of the nicest and most comfortable I’ve seen and her presentation has been immaculate every time I’ve come in. She even called me to remind me to pick up some of my go backs. Thank you! :)

This boutique actually feels like one – clothes & accessories are nicely displayed, & easy to reach; also wonderful dressing rooms Renee is friendly &helpful, and knowledgable as an experienced business owner who understands the shopping experience. Dress Up opened in March 2013, & I’ve already bought a number of quality items here! They carry many brand names, and she only consigns items in great condition.
I became a consignor in early June. Her pricing is very moderate and its a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ split for a 90 day consignment; prices going to 50% in the final 30 days. As their selection is so good, I often stop by when doing my local errands, and Renee was more than willing to check my balance, and even pay out a small balance. Of course, its very easy to spend your money right there in the store — but its not the type of place that MAKES you take store credit – they give you cash, ladies!
Of my summer items, half sold; and I was able to pick up my remaining items; not forced to «donate» unless I wanted to. I already have an appt. to bring in fall items, as this owner has proven to be professional and trustworthy. This store is building a great reputation, and is a nice alternative to the low-​star store in the Lucky’s Ctr.
As this store isn’t really visible from the street, she uses a sandwich board to catch attention of folks going into the CV Village, or traversing Santa Maria Ave, & also makes a point of doing great window displays. My only negative is that I wish she was open BOTH weekend days – both as a consignor, and as a shopper – AND till 6pm!
…Also its just a little dangerous for my «cute jackets» addiction…