Antique & Collectible

Vintage Wire & Wood Clothes Hangers

In the days when hangers were a luxury, and hotels and trains provided a place to sleep but not necessarily a means to hang your clothes up, a hanger or two was a necessary part of a well-packed traveler's suitcase.  American inventors quickly saw the market was ripe for a "better mousetrap", creating literally hundreds of different hanger designs.   Some hangers were simple, others quite complex, and some were granted patents.  There were folders, sliders, hinged varieties, expanding ones, hangers with clothespins or clips, others that incorporated a clothes brush or a shoe horn, those that advertised a product or business, pocket-sized dainty models, and large graphic twisted wire versions.  Here's a sampling of the seemingly endless variety, along with my current offerings of antique clothespins.  

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