It's evident that, as I grow older, I am taking on some of the more tedious traits of my parents. One of them is becoming tidy. Once, I was wanton with the location of clothes, shoes, CDs, bikes, whatever. Gradually, as I have aged, and my hairline has begun its retreat towards the back of my head, tidiness and order seem to grow increasing significant.
And so, having applied the gritted teeth approach of tidying everything in the house, I now turn to my wardrobe (Mrs North can do whatever TF she likes with hers - there's so much stuff in there that the doors are booby trapped to spill dresses, blouses and slingback kitten heels all over the bedroom floor). My suits, shirts, coats and, er, university gown, all hang on a variety of hangers: those the suits came with from whichever outlet, and the inherited, half broken and, of course, ubiquitous yellow Johnson's jobs that bend like riverside willows.
So, as the final bastion of chaos, do I give into the urge to buy some wooden coathangers (knowing that I am further comdemning some trees, and so skyrocketing my middle class guilt), or do I shut the wardrobe doors, cast off the chains of conformity and get a life.
Over to you, wise ones.
😀
I think the first step is to get rid of the university gown.
Yep, step 1 throw out all the suits and gowns you haven't worn for five years.
Then see what coathangers you have left 😀
I think the first step is to get rid of the university gown.
I second that - sell it to this years crop of graduates which will fund the desire for wooden hangers.
But always keep a few metal hangers - they almost have as many uses as gaffer tape.
I think the first step is to get rid of the university gown.
Oh now come on, theres got to be a university somewhere that'll let him in, eventually! Don't give up hope OMITN
the wife doesn't like wooden hangers - apparently they waste valuable space!
The Ikea Beech boomerangs are made from sustainable sources. Cheap as chips too.
If there's one thing that makes my p*ss boil, it's these...
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Suits and proper jackets all have wooden hangers. Anything else just gets hung on whatever is there.
Anything else just gets hung on whatever is there.
CFH, you disappoint me. Anyway, how do you know - doesn't your valet have exclusive wardrobe management responsbilities?
second that - sell it to this years crop of graduates
This is an undergrad gown. And has been slept in inumerable times following college dinners. Or, like Japanese businessmen buying schoolgirls undies, do you think there is a specialist market for this sort of thing?
I got a load of Ikea wooden hangers; made some hooks for handing tyres and wheels from a rail in the garage from some wire ones.
Surely one inherits one's wooden coat hangers?
OMITN, corroded, would it please you to know that some of those hangers still have old names from over 50 years ago on them?
They can last a while though [making them more environmentally friendly] - I am still using some that are at least 41 years old 😯
sorry but it's plastic for me - broad pads for shoulder support of suit jackets etc and those very specific trouser hangers with the extra little clippy bits for, err, trousers
beats the crap out of wood
Mudshark has it.
Metal and plastic hangers are the work of the Devil I tell thee. Only wooden ones in my wardrobe!
No self respecting tan suede jacket owner would hang their's on anything else.
Life is too short to wear cheap clothes and frankly, they don't suit me.
Good wooden hangers are essential. Hard to find properly shaped ones though.
Also a must are trousers hangers. These you can get from Ikea, hang your strides upside by the turn-ups......your suit trousers I'm presuming do have proper cuffs.
all wood, all the time 🙂
I have 100s from Ikea so that they sit nicely togeher.
I've got a wooden hanger with my grandmothers maiden name scrawles on it, makes it 80 years old (assuming the practice of writing your name on stuff ends at about 10, and that it was new at the time)!
Plastic snaps, metal bends, wooden ones just work.
Wooden hangers for clothes. Wire hangers for clearing toilet blockage.
I've got wood. 😉
Careful with wet shirts on wooden hangers. You can end up with brown shoulders...
Careful with wet shirts on wooden hangers. You can end up with brown shoulders...
What about linen suits? Brown trousers...?
Glad to know that everyone else here thinks too much about the ephemera of life. I am comforted in our collective nerdiness, and the fact that CFH is so far in the upper echelons of the social order that he has inherited coat hangers. 😀
Sorry, I meant the shirts yoke, not your shoulders. Some wooden hangers have cheap non waterproof varnish on them, and it'll leave stains on your shirts
**** I need to get out more....24 hour party people was based on me...
Nah, just from a family of cheapskates! 😉
So, as the final bastion of chaos, do I give into the urge to buy some wooden coathangers
The next stage after the wooden coathangers is the urge to spend thousands getting walk in wardrobes and storage systems fitted. I know this as SWMBO has just reached that stage. I tried to tell her that for the same cash I could get my dream mountain bike (an S-Works carbon Epic or an Indy Fab Ti Deluxe with full XTR etc) but she wasn't listening...
I have some wooden ones with a few plastic shop ones thrown in!
But the wooden ones do take up a lot of room. Only use them for items like jackets which need to maitain their shape.
I really HATE coathangers for some reason...they are one of life's necessary evils...metal dry-cleaner ones being the most offensive.
They would be one of my Room 101 items!
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I tried to tell her that for the same cash I could get my dream mountain bike (an S-Works carbon Epic or an Indy Fab Ti Deluxe with full XTR etc) but she wasn't listening...
Meanwhile, in a parallel train of thought:
[i]I tried to tell him that for the same cash as his silly mountian bike I could get my dream built-in wardrobes (lacquered solid cherry wood, a separate shoe cupboard and soft close doors) but he wasn't listening...[/i]
I'm sure a handy chap could knock together a built in wardrobe....
I had some wooden hangers from my grandfather three years before. A easy combination of one metal hook with one wooden hanger just work well. Like this design:
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So far, they are still robustness. LOL!
I'm with oddjob. Load of IKEA wooden ones. If it hangs in the wardrobe, it's on a wooden hanger. Everything sits together better then.
The really important thing isn't what they are made of but that they all match. I would go for wood but don't want to throw away perfectly good plastic hangers.
Hangers?
Isn't that what the 10 bikes I don't use are for? 😳
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second that - sell it to this years crop of graduates
This is an undergrad gown. And has been slept in inumerable times following college dinners. Or, like Japanese businessmen buying schoolgirls undies, do you think there is a specialist market for this sort of thing?
are you saying that your wardrobe may have contents which could be considered to be of "Gay Interest"?
time to come out of the closet perhaps? 😀
I thought that the definition of middle class was something to do with how many different types of pasta you have in the cupboard/fridge not related to hanger types?