Characteristics of clothes hangers, selection criteria

To ensure careful storage of personal wardrobe items or items for sale, it is worth choosing high-quality internal filling for a closet or exhibition equipment. This will help extend the life of items, and will also allow you to place more of them in a smaller area, thereby saving living space. One of the filling elements is clothes hangers, which are distinguished by a variety of shapes and sizes.

Purpose

Clothes hangers have long become an integral attribute of wardrobes, sliding wardrobes in city apartments, dressing rooms, and entrance group furniture in private houses. These small accessories allow you to competently organize the storage of various types of clothing. Thanks to the presence of such devices, a dress or trousers can be stored in a closet in a suspended state, which prevents clothes from wrinkling. Such products are also very often used in shopping centers, exhibition halls, showrooms.

The type of hangers and the material they are made from are selected taking into account the features of the things that are planned to be placed on them. Plastic options can be compact, transparent, lightweight, but they will not cope with storing coats. It is important to remember this when selecting the internal contents of a home closet. More durable and expensive wooden or metal options are distinguished by a long service life and better performance parameters.

Existing species

Today, manufacturers have diversified the design and operational parameters of clothes hangers. According to their purpose, hangers can be distinguished:

• children's - are small in size. They are more often used in stores and exhibition centers than in everyday life;
• suits - irreplaceable for those people who prefer a business style of clothing;
• for outerwear - they are highly durable enough to withstand the weight of a winter down jacket or coat;
• for underwear, sarafans - have special recesses for straps of bodices or sarafans, which allows you to securely fix the outfit. Extremely light, beautiful hangers. Basically, such products can be found in lingerie stores, sales areas, exhibition centers;
• for trousers, blouses - have special clips, with which you can fix the leg without damaging the fabric. There will be no creases or other defects on the clothes, which captivates many users.

Depending on the place of application, hangers are distinguished for:

• corridors - are highly durable, as they are intended for storing outerwear;
• bathrooms - used for placing towels and robes;
• children's - they have a bright design and smaller dimensions, as they are used to store children's clothes.

Depending on the design features, hangers can be:

• separately hanging with the ability to remove from the bar without additional complications;
• part of a single structure without the possibility of detachment. They can often be seen in showrooms, modern interiors of entrance groups.

What materials can they be made of?

Modern manufacturers use the following materials for making hangers:

• wood - models made of wood are the most practical, as they are highly durable and have a long service life, and allow you to place different types of clothing. Wooden hangers do not deform during use, but are afraid of direct contact with water, sunlight, and some types of insects;
• metal - forged hangers look luxurious, but they should be used in a spacious dressing room or on open clothes racks. The cost of such structures is quite high, but they will last a very long time. Today, there are floor metal racks with hangers that are installed in the bedroom or entrance group as a full-fledged piece of furniture, where there is no room for a standard closet;
• plastic - these are the cheapest products with a simple, laconic design. They are practical, lightweight, but often break under the heavy weight of clothes. Plastic hangers are suitable for a narrow cabinet and for light clothes, but they should not be used for storing coats. If you prefer transparent hangers for a store window, then the attention of buyers will be entirely focused on the goods, and not on them.

Standard sizes

An extremely important parameter when choosing hangers for clothes is their size. The owner's comfort level and the quality of the wardrobe item's placement largely depend on their correct selection. For example, a shirt or a large jacket will wrinkle on too small hangers.

The standard width of wooden hangers is 45 cm, and metal hangers are 42 cm. Therefore, it is convenient to place clothes from sizes 46 to 50 on them. Plastic models of hangers have a wider range of sizes: from the most compact adult options with a width of 40 cm to large models that are suitable for clothes of size 56 and larger.

The children's hanger has a width from 25 to 38 cm. Such parameters are typical for the most common hangers, although if desired, you can find models of other sizes.

Correlation with clothing size

Choosing a hanger is easy only at first glance. In fact, this is a purely individual task, when performing which it is important to understand who needs such a thing and for what purpose. Also, the generally accepted scale of the ratio of clothing size to hanger length will come to the rescue.

When choosing hangers for men's clothing, it is important not to forget: men have wider shoulders. For this reason, hangers for men's clothing should be larger than for women's clothing. In the case of a men's hanger, a width of 43 cm corresponds to size 44-46 (or according to the international standard - M), 46 cm - 48-50 (L), 51 cm - 52-54 (XL). In order to be completely sure of the correctness of the purchase, for a large, broad-shouldered man it is worth choosing hangers with a length of 46-51 cm. For those who prefer natural materials in clothing or hangers of non-standard size and design, manufacturers offer hangers with non-standard sizes, unusual shapes, colors.

The main thing to remember when making such products to order is that the maximum width of the cabinet limits the width of the hangers to 55 cm.

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