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Cool! A hanger for $32!

No, it's better than that, Pixie! It's a hanger that distorts your clothes shape and drops your strappy dresses on the floor for $32. Minimalism doesn't get much better than that!

Really, do you believe that the designer intends us to replace our closets full of hangers with these? I'm going to say that's probably not the intent... Regardless if it is practical or not, I find it to be an attractive take on the traditional hanger.

So the argument is that it's not really a hanger... it's just art that looks vaguely like a hanger?

That's inflammable, not flammable (or flamable) -- unless, to borrow from Strunk and White, you are concerned with the safety of children and illiterates.

and then your flammable paint can char your wrinkled garments.

No, no -- you use the heat from your flammable paint to help steam the garments! It's all one vast circle of life!

I neither said that it is not a hanger nor that it is art. My statement was that I don't believe its intent is to be a replacement for traditional hangers. If you are really concerned with the creater's intent, I would suggest contacting this individual.

Fortunately, I'm not the least bit interested in the creator's intent -- it was you who suggested that an item sold as a hanger is not intended as a hanger -- so I'll leave it to you to email him or her. Do tell us the outcome!

It's a cool hanger. $32 is not unreasonable if you buy one or two to hang coats from a hook in your entryway. No need to replace every hanger in your closet.

It is unreasonable if you pay $32 and then your coats fall on the floor, which looks like it might be possible.

The angle of the hanger looks to me to be about the same as your typical coat hanger; anyway, if you fasten the top of your coat, it shouldn't fall off.

I thought one-too-many Cosmos made you drop your strappy dresses to the floor.

Why are people getting so bent out of shape over a wire bent into a triangle? I look at this site to see interesting objects and ideas, not to get in a childish fight over what a coat hanger is. Perhaps its time for everyone to go outside, take a smoke break and breathe some fresh air. (At least that's how we do it in Louisville.)

No, p(too), it's one too many Cuba Libres.

Between wende and P2, I'm just about to choke on my salad, I laughed so hard.

But seriously, that angle is absolutely steeper than the normal coat hanger angle, so the image of Wende handing her empty Cosmo glass to Patrick, as he hands her the preffered stein of Cuba Libre (I have no idea what kind of beverage this is, so I've decided it's a beer) AS she watches her strappy dress fall from this hanger, while wearing something more comfortable and serviceable, is now PhotoShopped into my brain as a burned with that paint into my brain like the images in those old wood-burning kits they used to sell in the craft section of the toy department at Gibson's, (because of that burning weird paint post).

Curtis, if that image we're already seared into your brain, I'd tell you that a Cuba Libre is a rum and Coke with a little lime.

Thanks, Wende, P(2), and Curtis--your hilariousness totally cheered me up on an otherwise craptastic day. :)

While everyone else is debating the merits of the triangle hanger/not-hanger, I find myself craving the mixtape usb. What can I say, I'm a sucker for anything analogue looking.

Nobody said anything about the coat rack.

Coat rack looks at 1st glance as if the points for hanging might be sharp enough to distort stuff like knit fabric garments...

The coatrack reminds me of the game pick-up-sticks.

I think the coatrack is pretty, though.

"Fire is cool." Bevis
(or was it Butthead?)

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