Joan Crawford may have hated wire hangers, but clothes hangers are an important part of taking care of clothing, whether presenting it for sale or storing it for short or long periods. Properly hung, clothes will keep their shape and look fresh, without wrinkles, creases or torn seams.
Hangers also permit you to organize clothes as clothing items. Suits can be hung with suits, dresses with dresses, shirts with shirts, and with the right labeling, a man wearing a size 46 suit and a woman wearing a size 8 dress can comb through a clothier’s selections to find just the outfits they want.
Hangers can be made of wood, metal or plastic and their uses are as follows:
1. Wood hangers to display men’s and women’s suits and topcoats.
2. Plastic hangers provide economical storage and organization for shirts, dresses and pants.
3. Metal hangers include wire hangers found at the cleaner’s, as well as larger hangers for hanging draperies and bedspreads for display or storage.
4. Specialty hangers can include smaller hangers for children’s clothing, as well as satin-lined and padded hangers for lingerie and other delicate garments, and round hangers for bikinis.
Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done
Don't knock the look of wooden hangers
Wood hangers are the best at keeping a garment's shape, particularly suits and heavy coats. A good wood hanger can add to a tailored suit's eye appeal.
I recommend: Hangers Direct manufactures wood hangers with a natural finish or a walnut finish with either chrome or brass accents.
Clothes Hangers offers the same choices in wholesale hangers, along with black, white and pink finishes.
Hang up your clothes, young man
Children wear a number of clothing sizes as they grow up; the children's hangers business is as brisk as that in children's clothes themselves, with styles to match the clothes and features like clips and notches to keep the clothes on the hanger and off the floor.
I recommend: Hangers Direct owns the children’s hangers business with wooden and plastic hangers for infant, toddler and children’s clothes.
Trio Display and
Closet Hanger Factory also deal in wholesale and retail hangers for children’s clothes.
Display your clothes in style with specialty hangers
Not every piece of clothing fits neatly on a standard hanger. Sometimes the hanger has to adapt to the clothes, either with a special shape or with linings to protect and keep fine lingerie in place.
I recommend: Closet Hanger Factory offers both
satin hangers for fine garments and fabric-covered wire
glam hangers designed to add glitz to fancy dresses while keeping them in place, as well as an assortment of
specialty hangers for neckties, swimwear, draperies and bedding. Clothes Hangers offers hangers for
ties, belts and scarves, as well as
car coathangers.
Accessorize your hangers
By themselves, quality hangers can add to the eye appeal of quality clothing, but they can also display size information so your customers know what they're buying or your company logo so they can continue to sell your products in your customers' closets.
I recommend: In addition to its bulk hangers sales,
Gershel Brothers offers round and rectangular size dividers to group clothes by size, as well as wraparound markers and hanger stackers to keep your empty hangers organized and at the ready.
Hangers Direct lets you personalize your hangers with a custom design or your store logo.
Tips & Tactics
Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide
- Place like hangers together, wood hangers with wood hangers, plastic with plastic, metal with metal, and use wooden hangers only where there is sufficient space to allow for their bulk. This will produce an attractive, eye-catching display.
The official source of Hangers is the Hangers page at Business.com
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