Dress up clothes are great fun but they present an ongoing storage challenge. Here are some of the best solutions we have seen: five you can buy and five to DIY.
Top Row/DIY
1. Garment Rack by Smile And Wave
2. Dress Up Storage by Craftiness Is Not Optional
3. Dress Up Wardrobe by Childhood 101
4. Underbed Roadcase - DIY solution by Meg Spaeth of Elsie Marley
5. Vintage Suitcase Storage - DIY by Curly Birds
Bottom Row/BUY:
6. Dress Up Storage Unit at Discount School Supply ($231)
7. Clothes Tree at P'Kolino ($110)
8. Dress Up Carousel at Hearth Song ($249)
9. APA Storage Box at IKEA ($14.99)
10. Guidecraft See And Store Dress Up Center - $193.99 at Cymax
(Images: as credited above)
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No hangers! I have yet to see my kids hang something on a hanger such that it would stay on. We stick with hooks and tubs--they make for faster (and therefore more likely) cleanup.
Hooks are definitely the way to go. They took our dress up collection from a bunched of wadded up things crammed into drawers, to something that actually looks great as a part of playroom decor. See it here:
http://cleansmartsimple.blogspot.com/2010/10/dressing-up-our-dress-up-stuff.html
When my 3 girls were little, we had a veritable dressing room (hooks and shelves and a couple of Goodwill full-length mirrors) in our basement. We needed it because of our stage, curtains, and puppet theatre, all built be a very handy daddy (and a mom who sews). We were the go-to place for Halloween costumes for years! Loved it.
We had an old suitcase full of dress up clothes when we were kids. Dragging the suitcase out from its storage place was half the fun - like the start of a great imaginary vacation. The suitcase wasn't pretty, it was all banged up, which made it even better because it had traveled so much and there was the mystery of which places it had been too. And cleanup was a snap. Our dress up clothes were a mix of Halloween costumes and my parent's old clothes, nothing that would look cute hanging up in a playroom ,which we didn't have anyway, so they had to be contained in a box and the suitcase was perfect.
I'm surprised no mention of Chloe's costume closet from Rambling Renovators
http://ramblingrenovators.blogspot.com/2011/12/chloes-diy-costume-closet.html
We use a 4-slot classroom locker that was a cast-off from a preschool. It's similar to this: http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/seo/ca|searchResults~~p|DG238~~.jsp except that ours has pegboard as the backing allowing us to customize the storage. We have baskets full of masks, wands, and other accessories in the top cubbies, all kinds of hooks filled with costumes and capes in the tall sections, and funny hats, helmets, and tutus in the bottom cubbies. It works fantastic.
Don't know why I didn't just share the photo of our dress-up storage in my previous comment -- easier to understand when there's a visual. http://www.flickr.com/photos/64009708@N00/7305313856/in/photostream