I suppose this could be in MPIMS or IMHO, but I suspect there’s a factual answer and I’m curious. I occasionally (including today on my way home from work) see cars on the road with a clothes rack in the back seat chock full of loaded hangers. What’s going on here? Are these people sales folks selling clothes and these are samples? Are they living out of their vehicles and this is their closet? I don’t think they are moving to a new home. Why but a clothes bar for your car for a one-time trip? What’s the dope?
I would imagine the two most likely answers would be that either it is somebody returning from the dry cleaner, or a dry clean home delivery service.
I use them for extended trips. For the driving out there and back bits. Certain items of clothing I don’t want to fold or even cram into a suit carrier. They go from closet to vehicle to closet. The cost of the bar/rack was minimal.
That’s certainly plausible. The ones I usually see are completely loaded though, from one side to the other. Seems like a lot of hanging clothes for a trip.
Dry cleaning delivery is possible too, I suppose.
A lot of retired folks spend winters in Florida, returning north in late spring. For stays of that duration, I imagine they take a good portion of their wardrobe. My parents used to be part of the annual migration. I never saw how they loaded their car, but it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if they had one of those racks. It’s nothing but a pole with a loop at each end to hook over the hook already present in most cars.
A college student beginning or ending the school year often is driving a car that looks like that.
Both good thoughts too. Thanks.
Back in the day, it was considered de rigeur for high-society people to send their daughters to college with as many clothes as they could afford. They’d even say “Better 1/2 a year with a full clothes rack than a whole year with 1/2 a rack”. So we’d see hundreds of these cars full of clothes driven by sorority girls on ‘move-in’ day.
Salespeople and Reps are often out on the road for weeks at a time.
There is no point in folding all your shirts and packing them in suitcases when you can just hang them across your back seat where they never get creased and you can just remove one each night to bring up to your hotel room.
My spouse works in small cities across our state four days a week. The cheapest laundry and dry cleaner is not in our hometown. She travels with what you might call a rolling closet. Many of her clothes hang in the back of here SUV.