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.
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.
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…
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.
I use mostly metal, but prefer the wooden ones.
Heh.
Plastic hangers here. Black and White.
Lady Chances clothes go one white hangers. Mine go on the black ones.
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.