Thursday, February 28, 2008

One Of The Essential

This does away with the need for a bar.At home a major use of storage space is to store clothing, shoes, and garments. There they find a huge choice, neatly displayed. Therefore it is also used for garment inventories. The garment retailers and dry cleaners led its adoption to display and store garments.One of the essential needs of mankind is clothing. Examples of luxury are hangers specially designed for pet apparel. Ready to pick and choose? Most clothing is attractively displayed by the use of wooden, plastic or metallic wire hangers. One example is a one with a comic face display that changes when clothes are hung on it. It becomes environmentally hazardous as some toxic materials are used in lacquer and plastics. It saves space and also makes it easy to store or remove a garment.Types- Metal, Wooden and PlasticAt first there were wooden and metallic wire hangers.Modern trendsThe modern trends are in the direction of luxury, environmental concerns and innovative use of materials. People take convenient easy to use clothing storage options for granted.Hangers arrived as innovations and the innovation continues.In time hangers were used to store apparel at home too.Another example is one with a magnet in place of the hook. A lower bar was added to hang trousers, skirts etc. Despite being able to serve a lifetime they do have a shelf life after which they are discarded and thrown in landfills.The hanger allows the garment to be stored in the form in which it is worn without creasing. This led to the invention of the clothes hanger.It was an elegant invention. This excites children and attracts them towards their use and not dump their clothes around the house.The concern for the environment leads to the issue of recycling.Origin of HangersIt was not quite like this till the late 1800s and early 1900s.DesignMost of the garments like the shirt, suit coat, and sweater hang on the body of the wearer from his shoulder. Till that time clothes were simply folded and stored. People flock to the malls to shop for garments. It therefore allows greater freedom to store clothes in a cupboard. This was not great for the shirt or pants nor was it a great way to display. The magnet attaches itself to a metallic cupboard's roof. A hook or clamp was added to the design to enable it to be hanged from a fixture.. Metallic hangers are also inexpensive and can serve for a lifetime. Plastic ones were introduced at a later stage and are mostly found in households. Hence plastic ones are now being recycled but to a limited extent. This lead to the design of the hanger in the shape of a person's shoulder. The wooden hanger was beautified by coating of lacquer on natural finished hardwood, and are use for display in shops. It stored the garment without creasing.

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