Cool Clothes Hangers: The Practical and the Fanciful

Do you struggle with using hangers? Organizers often recommend using hooks, since they are easier to use than hangers. But here are two types of hangers that might appeal even to the hanger-averse —and everyone else, as well.

The Jean Hanger makes it super-simple to hang up a pair of jeans. There are no clamps or clips; you just take the belt loops and hook them over the hanger. You can look at the video from the Kickstarter campaign of a few years ago to get more of a feel as to how these hangers work.




Holding Hangers, designed for skirts and slacks, are another way to make hanging your clothes extremely easy.  (They also work for strapless dresses and off-the-shoulder blouses.) Again, there are no clamps or clips — the hangers go inside the waistband. The company founder, C. Lee Crawley, says these hangers are widely used in boutiques in Europe, and she’s now made them available to those of us in the U.S.




OK, let’s move on to the fanciful. The hangers from Stupell Industries feature mostly dogs and cats, but there are other animals, too. Stupell promotes them as gift items, which sounds good to me — I think they’re a gift that would be likely to get used rather than one that becomes someone else’s clutter. They might also encourage some reluctant hanger-users to be more diligent, just because the hangers are so darn cute. (I don’t see using them for all of someone’s clothes, but rather for a few select items such as a jacket or two.)

For many more interesting hanger possibilities, you can look at the posts I wrote for Core77:
Hanger Design, Beyond the Basics
Not Your Ordinary Clothes Hangers

And if you just want recommendations for good basic hangers, given the huge number of options, this prior post points you to recommendations from The Container Store, Wirecutter, and others.