# Hangers **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 15, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangers/294552 "2005-03-15T00:45:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangers/294552/21 "2005-03-16T00:32:25Z")
plastic hangers for drying. they are kept on towel racks that are tacked to the ceiling of the basement. wood gripping kind for trousers and skirts. cloth padded (scented and unscented) for when things are in the closet. plastic hangers stay in the basement. padded hangers stay upstairs. wood gripping travel between the two. when something is taken off of the wood grip, the wood grip gets tossed into the laundry basket so it goes with the wash down and the dry stuff up. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangers/294552/22 "2005-03-16T00:41:28Z")
Hanger management is much easier if you get the kind that has a little hook under the hook-over-the-rack, so you can hang a hanger on it. I think they usually make them so you can hang your pants on your blouse hanger on just one peg in the bathroom or whatever, but you can make a hanger chain with them and just pick off one, and they don’t get all tangled together. It’s hardly beautiful, but it’s what I do in the bathroom. Not all my hangers have the little hook, though. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangers/294552/23 "2005-03-16T00:47:59Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > I like that you call it “organized.” 😃 > I figured it was my touch of OCD that makes me hang blue things on blue hangers, tan things on tan hangers, green things on green hangers… well, you get the idea. > 😉 Actually, organized to me might have meant Blue for jeans, green for khakis, white for t-shirts, red for blouses… But I have more colors of hangers than I have kinds of clothes, so I just grab whatever. Color coordinating at our house wouldn’t work anyway - my husband owns so many black garments… ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangers/294552/24 "2005-03-16T01:43:58Z")
I don’t care if they’re wooden, metal or plastic as long as they are strong enough. I’ve bought wire ones which could barely take the weight of a T-shirt, and plastic ones which have snapped just looking at them. The one time I have ever experienced “hanger envy” was when I was in an arty-farty suburb of Melbourne about fifteen years ago, and there were handmade wrought iron ones made by a local blacksmith. They were twenty-five dollars each! But man they were classy. They were about the thickness of your thumb. If I were a rich idiot with no conscience I’d have bought the lot of them (and a reinforced wardrobe to take the weight). Prior to that, I would never have thought a hanger could be described as “beautiful”, but these ones were. ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangers/294552/25 "2005-03-16T02:52:47Z")
I use mostly metal, but prefer the wooden ones. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangers/294552/26 "2005-03-16T03:34:55Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I forgot about the swivel kinds - mine are the multi-colored 10 for a buck plastic hangers. If I was really organized, I’d color-code my wardrobe on the hangers, but that’s too much like work. Heh. Plastic hangers here. Black and White. Lady Chances clothes go one white hangers. Mine go on the black ones. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangers/294552/27 "2005-03-16T09:33:31Z")
I like the plastic coated wire ones for shirts, wooden shaped hangers for coats and wooden ones which are padded for wide necked garments which tend to slip off the other kind. I hate the plain wire ones which dry cleaners use. They don’t keep their shape and they mark the clothes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hangers/294552.md?page=1)