No mistake, a good choice. I haven't used a wire hanger in years - they look tacky and no self respecting piece of clothing should be expected to hang on them. I use the heavy duty plastic ones. Where did you get your wood ones? It's time I upgraded my hanger scene.

I bet they look great, Jan. Especially in your newly decorated new house:)

Sheila, I did a search and on Organize.com I found all kinds of hangers.
I bought the white ones because I already had some and wanted to do all white.
They are really nice. I just opened them up and checked them out.

I use padded and love them. ( So does Digby)

I'm like Joan Crawford in "Mommy Dearest" - NO WIRE HANGERS!! I use plastic ones like clothes hang on in department stores. I've bought them at The Container Store & when I buy clothes I ask for them to be kept on the hanger. Heavy stuff like coats are hung on wood hangers.

One you get your clothes off those awful wire things your clothes will thank you.

Yeah, plastic here too, but just recently DH was lamenting we had no wire hangers for some project or other. I had thin craft wire and offered to put heavier wire on my shopping list but he said he doubted any wire at hardware store was as useful...the right strength and flexibility...LOL josh

I'll always have a supply of wire hangers due to frequent
trips to the cleaners. I recycle and take them back but
they multiply once they get in the house.

Your husband is right, some things just need heavy duty
wire hangers, much like DUCT tape.

In his sighted days, Neil couldn't have lived without either one. I just thought of something.

If Neil could still see, poor little Sassi would be
sporting a duct taped leg. :0)

I live with a hodge-podge, though I have a great many of the plastic ones that come from department stores and also the pants hangers they use. Wooden for coats. Wire with those cardboard bottoms that come from the cleaners with pants hung on them--and I continue to use them for pants. Reading all this, I realize that there are some rather nice sweaters hanging on wire in my closet that are probably not happy. Oh goody, another little chore to do, lol!

I have a hodgepodge, some wooden hangers in my closet are actually probably collectibles, the came from the thirties, and have the name and address of the store printed on them, telephone numbers with the letter-prefix, their origins are long gone men- and boy clothing stores. DH's parents never threw anything away.
I also have wire hangers covered with left-over yarn crochet over the wire, I do that sometimes, when I am looking for some quick craft to do, have yarn-scraps around (and no young cats LOL), it pads the wire and it keeps clothing from sliding off the darn things.

I really dislike wire hangers, so several years ago replaced all we had with plastic ones. I especially like the ones that have a hook on which another hanger can be added, if the clothing item is very light--like a blouse. It gives more space in the closet, that way. We have some wooden ones for coats, but that's about it. If I bring a wire hanger home from the dry cleaner's, I get rid of it ASAP.

I think I have purchased hangers once in my whole life. So.......my closets and presses aren't exactly coordinated by a stretch. Like Lilo, I have some very old jobbies with names and phone numbers on them in wood. I also have some modern wooden hangers, likely from items a man has purchased from a high end clothier. Yes, coats and other heavy items go on those.

I have tubular heavy plastic ones as well, I think inhertited from this person or that, and those are nice. Then there are metal ones, but not the thin metal. These are very heavy and almost decorative and sweaters or other heavy items go on those.

For trousers, I use the wooden pants hangers with a clasp designed specifically for skirts or trousers, or nicer heavy flat plastic pants hangers from stores with the clips to hold them securely. I do not like to fold trousers, as it mangles the leg lines.

I hate the cheesy flat plastic hangers found on new clothing, and when I check out of a store, make the clerk take them off.

The thin wire hangers from places like dry cleaners? I need a hundred or two of them every year for my greenery business and I beg, borrow or steal them so I am a recycling end-user. I do not use them for hanging clothes unless it's temporary.

The padded hangers are nice. I don't think I have any of them at the present but for really delicate things like an angora sweater or a silk item, they're perfect.

One of the nicest house-warming gifts I ever received was 40 plastic hangers from a close friend of MIL's. Really thoughtful - I would never have bothered myself, making do with whatever odd selection came to hand. But 40 got us started, and I've bought more subsequently.

Definitely would do that for someone else now.

Any wire hangar coming within my reach is straightened and saved for use in gardening and crafts. You can buy wire at HD which is supposedly the same weight, but it just doesn't handle the same... possibly the drycleaning fumes affect the hangars, lol.

Heavy shaped wood for hanging coats and jackets; plastic and padded plastic for lightweight items. Slacks and jeans have the special hanger that clips the cuffs [with wood bars, not metal]. My own invention of cafe-curtain rings plus 4" paper clips permits hanging multiple garments in one space.

A discount store went out of business when DD was quite young. I picked up a box of plastic hangers for her closet, for 25¢. When I got home, I discovered the box held 250 hangars. I think it's true about hangars multiplying if left alone. I now have about 300 plastic hangers.

I decided last year that Joan Crawford may have gotten a bad rap, at least as far as her dislike of wire hangers went. I was in a very old, very cheap hotel (no AC) on a very tropical South Seas island--the kind of hot, steamy place where it is almost always raining, and you're always near the sea. Picture lots of wicker, lazily spinning ceiling fans, and ex-merchant marines looking manly in their sarong-like sulus--the kind of place that you might expect to see the ghost of Somerset Maugham drinking gin by a billiards table.

I hung my favorite white linen shirt on a hanger, which I suspect had been there since the hotel was likely last renovated, probably in about 1929--and it left rust stains on the shirt that I haven't yet been able to get out. I'm theorizing that Joan Crawford, living in warm, seaside Hollywood in an era before great air conditioning (when did the rich start getting AC in private homes anyhow?) may have encountered the same problem. Not that it's worth a rage or anything.

At home, where the air is considerably less tropical and corrosive, I tolerate wire hangers and have plenty in my closets, though I prefer the wood and plastic ones. Of the wood, I have one from The Sands in Vegas and one from the Plaza Hotel in NYC. I've stayed in neither place and have no recollection of how they found their way into my closet.

Dirtdiver, that was a wonderful vignette...you've got to post more often! Your mention of Somerset Maugham makes me think it's about time to pull out his short stories again...I reread them about every 15-20 years...lol... I hope I haven't culled them again. I had a 2-volume set back in the fifties, gave away probably in the seventies after rereading...then bought at yardsale in the eighties (might have been my old set, who knows?). josh

Isn't Somerset Maugham great? We just read The Painted Veil for my book group. I had it in a big anthology I bought years ago at a library book sale & when I finished with the novella, I had to go on & re-read some of the others. He really had his finger on Brits going to h*ll in the tropics. And now that I know about the rust stains from wire hangers, it makes me hate them even more.