Negatives to wire hangers? - Page 2

[lovemysunshine]

Originally Posted by p.s

respectfully disagree. Wood gives off odors/chemical/etc which over time will break down clothes. For the purposes of most mass produced clothes that Americans own, this is fine. But for very expensive, couture, or collectible clothing, fabric on fabric is better. Wrapped in acid free paper and stored in acid free boxes is best.
Plastic hangers are the absolute worst for clothing from an off vapor point of view.
i use wire hangers for most things, fabric covered padded hangers for the nice stuff. you can get good deals on the latter from ebay. sweater, or anything with heft or weight should not be hung.

So have you ever had issues with the wire hangers leaving marks on clothing? I'm not too concerned about very expensive clothing as I don't own any of that, but I can't afford to ruin the clothing I own either. I consider my Prana, etc expensive and I know that's not what you were referring to!

[p.s]

hmm at first i thought you misspelled Prada..

[lovemysunshine]

Argh, what to do? : Such a dilemma, and over hangers!

[libranbutterfly]

I loved mommie dearest. It was great to make my mom chill out She would start being really really bossy and b@#$y any I would just say "Yes Mommie Dearest" and she calmed down real quick

[libranbutterfly]

I love those prana clothes! they are out of my price range, though. We use plastic hangers, I dont like the wire ones b/c the bend out of shape so easily.

[lovemysunshine]

My Dh is working at REI right now (last year's summer job since he's a teacher), so he gets a pretty awesome discount on their stuff (Prana, not Prada ). He stuck with the job 1-2x/week through this school year just to keep the discount. It's still more than I would spend on myself, but he's gotten me a few things as gifts and they are nice (for the most part).

[polyhymnia]

Growing up we did a craft project with metal hangers and yarn or "gimp" (my grandfather called it boondoggle. do you know what I mean? It's probably plastic though so not better than plastic hangers - stick with yarn). You do this certain wrap technique and you end up with nice hangers in the end. The yarn helps keep clothes from slipping off, and it adds some thickness to the hangers as well as protecting clothes from possible rust spots. I remember sometimes we put two same-size metal hangers together and then wrapped them, it made them extra thick and sturdy.

Here are some links that I think explain the technique

http://www.exploringwomanhood.com/ho.../pom-jan05.htm

http://www.craftown.com/artpat11.htm

[TinyFrog]

Oh! Mommy Dearest, what a horrible movie. Geez I remember that too well. Luckily I had a great relationship with my mom and she had a very easy daughter to raise and we too used this as a joke. "No mommy, don't beat me with a hanger" "Yes mommy dearest". Out in public was always a great place to use this on her, she would get so embarressed. But now that I think about it, it's sad, not funny.


Oh, and plastic hangers all the way in our house.

[MelanieMC]

I personally hate metal hangers. I really hate how shirts look when they've been hanging on wire hangers (I don't like the "shoulder boob" look).

I use wooden hangers for most of my clothing, and padded ones for blouses/nicer clothing. I would probably use plastic if I had to buy them, but my grandmother had a ton of wooden & padded ones and gave them to me about a year ago. They've worked well for me and I haven't noticed any smells from them (like a pp mentioned), and these are at least 10 years old.

[lovemysunshine]

See we (well, mainly DH for some reason) get that problem with the "shoulder boob" with our plastic ones as well. Eventually I'd love to switch to wooden ones (I think at least ), but for now we can't afford that. So I'm leaning toward keeping the plastic ones for now.

This decision should not be this difficult.

[artgoddess]

Originally Posted by lovemysunshine

As for the Joan Crawford reference, I have no idea what you're talking about. : What movie is it from?

Oh you must be sooooo young.

[kijip]

I can't think about wire hangers without thinking danger. And I have never seen Mommy Dearest.

I can't stand them and they are not allowed in the house. We have all wood ones from IKEA. They are pretty cheap and they look nice.

[Mamma Mia]

A good trick for wooden hangers is to paint the tops where the shoulders go with silicone so that things don't slip off. FYI

[MelanieMC]

Originally Posted by artgoddess

Oh you must be sooooo young.

I'm young (21) and I've seen that movie 5 or 6 times. I think we used to have it on vhs, although i'm not sure why my parents would have bought that. :

[artgoddess]

Originally Posted by MelanieMC

I'm young (21) and I've seen that movie 5 or 6 times. I think we used to have it on vhs, although i'm not sure why my parents would have bought that. :

as a terrible warning of what life could be like if you didn't clean your room?

[fuller2]

I can't stand wire hangers.

My wooden hangers come from thrift stores (for some reason I often see them), from the street (why would someone throw away boxes of wooden hangers?? I don't know, and I got them--several times) and a few more from Ikea. I did not spend a lot of money on them and my clothes do not have weird dents in them from the wire.

I remember people used to like crochet or something over wire hangers. I remember as a kid wrapping them in yarn to make them have softer edges.