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aren't those just covered wire? why would you want those? isn't wire is bad for your clothes?

Yep - that's $18 each, and over your wire hanger.
Someone should break out the sewing machine and DIY this...

Those would be ridiculously easy to make. Mind you, I don't quite understand the point. I guess they'd help protect your clothing if you decided to be thrifty and use wire hangers. Though at $18 a piece...there's nothing thrifty about it. For $18, you could buy enough fabric to make a bajillion of these (rough estimate..maybe just a million).

I have to say that they DO look much nicer than those terrible stuffed hanger covers you see every now and then.

My aunt made me 6 of these as a bridal shower gift and they're super cute. Very easy to do, also, I think. Some of the pattern companies have similar patterns, but all you'd really have to do is: trace a hanger onto butcher paper (or tracing paper or whatever you have laying around that's not newspaper), add in seam allowances, and treat that as a pattern. I'm guessing you could do this without any sewing abilities if you were good with glue.

martha stewart has diy instructions...

here is one using kraft paper....

http://www.marthastewart.com/portal/site/mslo/menuitem.0e0eb51a2e6b5ad593598e10d373a0a0/?vgnextoid=013ff1bddea71110VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&autonomy_kw=hanger&rsc=image_9


this one is for a padded hanger...
http://www.marthastewart.com/portal/site/mslo/menuitem.3a0656639de62ad593598e10d373a0a0/?vgnextoid=5acd76ecfd22f010VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&rsc=related

Those look like underpants on wire hangers! Froot of the Loom, anyone?

no - more like BVD
:-)

I make these for my closet when I'm in the mood to sew something simple. I've been gradually using up a large piece of gray wool melton cloth for the purpose.

But seriously, what's the point of it? Unless you're planning to display empty hangers?

I don't get it either...

They are a nice little extra for the closet. And ridiculously easy to make, I'm certain, for almost nothing. That stitch-witchery type stuff could stand in for any sewing needed. Cut, iron, et voila.

There have been a lot of hanger ideas for purchase on the site lately. In that time, I haven't seen a lot of advice on organizing the closet, may have been a good question or it may have been a sex in the city question.

I just don't feel a whole lot better about spending money on the items nobody ever sees but me, to spoil my clothes with clothes for hangers that are more fastidious than useful, it's just how far people will feed on the material items that's really a secret indulgence. Sure maybe the white plastic hangers are tacky, and you feel assaulted if your hangers aren't nice when you go to get dressed. But it's like, less than 10 minutes a day.

I do believe our surroundings visually affect our sense of wellness, and I guess some people have different priorities than I do? Sure would be nice someday to have all uniform padded or wooden "classy" hangers... But at the rate these hanger stories keep popping up, you'd think it's an emergency, a scare tactic/"incentive" to get everything back into your closet, instead of the last thing to do before you call your apartment done.

Hang your best tops or bottoms on one hanger.
If you suffer from a small closet and need more space and want to stay organized than check out the HankyTankyHanger.

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