The best clamps on a clothes hanger set-up are those with rubberized tips, like that found in the Mawa by Reston-Lloyd. For those seeking a velvet construction at a great price, this is one of the best-valued options we tested. We researched more than two dozen hangers sold through Amazon, The Container Store, Bed Bath & Beyond, and a range of specialty retailers, paying close attention to owner reviews. As long as enough protective material exists between the clamp mechanism and the fabric, ripping or tearing is unlikely, and Mawas clips feel secure while also taking up slightly less physical space than the competition. Material on GearLab is copyrighted. The Utopia Home Plastic, on the other hand, broke after one hard bend and almost shattered. The Kirby Allisons Hanger Project Luxury Wooden Suit Hanger hits the highest mark in construction, materials, and detailing, making it our favorite suit hanger. As is true with most velvet hangers reviewed, the velvet can scrape off easily, which can get attracted to clothing. The heavy metal construction couldn't be snapped in our durability tests, while the rubberized exterior is completely non-slip. It has the same tier-hook protrusion issue we noted with the Pro-Mart DAZZ, with a slightly wider hook. We tested each in the closest of our main hallway and bedroom. The wooden style will make any closet organizationally appealing, while the 17.25 inch arm span can accommodate clothing of all sizes. While prices are similar, the Sharpty is a far more durable option. After we separated our research into several categoriesgeneral use, pants, womens shirt, skirt, and suit/jacket/coatwe pinpointed the detailing that set apart the poor from the good from the excellent. We also love that you don't need to deal with clamps, which takes more time than when hanging pants and skirts on the House Day Skirt Hangers and Mawa By Reston-Lloyd. Lighter-weight clothing has a tendency to slip off or to stretch out at the shoulder ends or around the neck on poorly fit hangers, so professional organizer Elizabeth Zeigler recommends wooden hangers with metal hooks and strap notching, which are designed to last longer than their plastic equivalents. A felt-covered pant bar keeps your trousers free of a crease, but this model is four times the price of our pants pick. If you care about reducing creases in your best pants, skirts, and suits, consider investing in clothing-specific hangers. Kirby Allisons The Hanger Project Profile B Womens Dress Hanger: This very expensive hanger is designed with a smaller shoulder width and a sharper arm angle in accordance with whats commonly marketed as womens sizing. J.S. Even though it's quite durable, each hanger is more than twice the price of other options in this review. Completely non-slip and well-balanced stability, Clothing must be folded over the lower rung. After four months of use, this model seems to be holding up and is still our favorite stylish wooden clothes hanger that'll save space in your closet. Even an affordable off-the-rack suit can benefit from the contouring and support of a suit hanger, though youd have to weigh the investment of a specialty hanger against that of the suit itself. As a managing editor at Apartment Therapy for seven years, Gregory Han advised countless readers about storage and decluttering strategies. The Utopia Home is another plastic clothes hanger that's easy enough to slide clothes onto. In contrast to pant hangers, a clamp-style design is preferable for hanging skirts since you can attach the clamps at the articles reinforced waistline. (We also recommend Mawas Space-Saving Hangers.) Another unique feature is the small space at the neck of the hook, which allows you to stack the hangers for further space-saving performance. The rotating hook allows you to still clip and unclip garments while the hangers are stacked vertically. Additionally, while we like the slot in the arm, it's harder to pull the clothes off this hanger as it can snag on these points. On the left, we see those specific for pants and skirts. But we have since reevaluated them. Rubberized open-ended options, lower-priced plastic classics, and classy-looking wooden products. Solid materials, excellent construction, and longer arms typically make an excellent product. Aside from that, this is another high-value standard plastic hanger that'll look great in any closet. This hanger is big and bulky, and only a few would fit in our closet. When you click on links to buy products we may earn money to support. The House Skirt also has a similar feature but is a dedicated pant and skirt hanger. Some hangers are equipped with locking pant bars, a two-piece mechanism of a lateral wooden rod secured at one end with bent metal to hold trousers in place. Aside from these features, the plastic is quite slippery, and clothing will typically slip right off. These hangers do have fewer features than the Proman Kascade. We do appreciate the vinyl-lined trouser rung on the Zober Wooden Suit that makes it less slippery than the Proman Kascade and will keep your skirts and pants in place. The slim shape is space efficient but prone to causing slight creasing, unlike bigger and bulkier felt-bar designs. As good as the Mawa skirt hanger is, it could be a little easier to access in closets if it were equipped with a swiveling hook. Aside from these caveats, it's still the most versatile hanger out there. At just $7 apiece currently, this hanger represents a modest upgrade from the molded-plastic hangers that come with off-the-rack suits. GearLab is reader-supported. For general use clothes hangers, wooden hangers like the Proman Natural Wood Kaskade and Zober Wooden do the best when it comes to stability. A note about flocked hangers (the ones textured to feel like thin velvet): Such styles are generally very sharp and have a thin profile, which is fine for lightweight articles but not good for much else. It can easily accommodate shirts, skirts, pants, dresses, and more. Not even the shoulder grooves won't prevent silk shirts from slipping off. We also consult with other clothing experts in the field to see where they think the best uses lie. The Zober Wooden Suit is a stylish hanger that'll look good in any closet. We measured how much space is saved and which are the easiest to use. As a past retail manager working for Patagonia in Telluride, Colorado, she knows what goes into a quality clothes hanger, having seen many that simply don't stack up when being used in the store. Even though we appreciate the versatility of this product, we aren't too impressed with its construction quality. In addition, the claps are super-strong and bomber, with a rubberized tip. We love the HOUSE DAY Clear Plastic hanger that also works for pants and suits. Are you sick of your delicates or slippery cami falling off the hanger and falling to the floor? This versatile hanger can either hang your pants using the clamps along the bottom of the rung, or you can hang shirts and jackets over the arms. A graceful curve ending in a 2-inch wide shoulder yoke will keep suits and coats in tip-top shape between wearings. The shoulders are relatively sturdy and won't flex when you hang a heavy jacket or shirt over the arms. At 17 inches wide, this hanger is the perfect size for medium-size button-up long-sleeve shirts. He also lived in a very cozy 1917 Los Angeles studio apartment, where he shared a single closet with his now-wife. If you can spend considerably more, get the Kirby Allison's Hanger Project Luxury Wooden Felted Trouser Bar Hanger. The Sharpty Black Hanger is a simple and traditional black plastic hanger with a slim profile. In this testing category, we look at how easy each hanger is to use. This super durable metal option has an open concept that is perfectly balanced. It features a non-slip construction that allows you to hang basically any garment of clothing in any configuration. Privacy | Cookies | Terms, We tested various types of clothes hangers to find the best options for your closet. Our home experts looked over 50 of the best clothes hangers before selecting 9 to test side-by-side. The hangers large, 2-inch-width shoulder flares, paired with the same high-quality felt that covers the Kirby Allison trouser hangers, are in a league of their own. Typically the bar has a covering of nonslip material that is grippy without being sticky; foam, rubber, gel, plastic, and felt are common coatings. Clothing designer Timothy Leung told us that hangers for shirts and lightweight jackets should naturally follow and fit the lines of the shoulder seams to allow the garment to rest without slipping off. Most people, including Leung himself, are perfectly well-served using a set of affordable wooden hangers, with just a few specialty hangers when required. The value is hard to beat, making it a great option for a velvet hanger. We take the time to do all the leg work to help you find excellent recommendations to help organize your closet. Amber King leads up this review and has over seven years of experience reviewing many different types of gear, including household items and outdoor apparel. No sponsored content. Lightweight and slim with uniform construction, the Proman Kascade Hanger is an affordable, classic, and versatile clothing hanger style. Ironically, this hangers strength is the source of its sole major drawback (beyond the significant $30 investment per hanger): Its big and heavy, requiring approximately the same space on our closet rod as five Proman Kascade hangers aligned side by side! In our testing it was a dust magnet that transferred particles onto darker fabrics, and in use it required us to remove the hanger from the rod to get to our pants, defeating the convenience of an open-end design. Our tester has been using the Euro and pants hangers, in white, for more than three years and has seen no sign of wear or issues with dust collection; our tester has also never observed any sticky residue from the coating or unusual amounts of creasing. Looking for the latest and greatest sewing machine? Clothes hangers might seem simple in general, but there are definitely differences that we note after using each comparatively for three weeks. Theres a limit to what you can do in a space you dont own, but these bath upgrades make it feel a lot more like its yours. With one big pull, we were able to easily pull the lower rung out as a single nail only secures it. One of our testers has been using these hangers (in white) since late 2017, using them for everything from winter coats to blazers to silk shirts, with neither issue nor complaint. In our bending tests, it snapped after minimal bending. Our Editors independently research, test, and rate the best products. We like that it also has two smaller hangers off the arms so you can easily attach a strappy dress or top. The lower rung is wrapped in a vinyl coating, which promotes a non-slip functionality for skirts and thinner materials. While it features cups along the arms for hanging strappy garments, it isn't completely non-slip. Even after attempting bends for over 10 minutes, we still couldn't get it to break, but we did eventually get it to deform. These steel hangers with a nonslip PVC coating (available in several colors) have a simple, continuous steel-rod design that will last for years. We liked the felt-lined trouser grip, which is designed for storing pants upside down from the cuff. The steel material, space efficiency, and long-term durability of these hangers make them a worthwhile investment. If the Proman style sells out, or if youre not ready to commit to buying a pack of 50, The Container Store Basic Natural Wood Hangers are nearly as durable and almost as refined. Although the flocking is meant to help hold garments in place, it can easily wear off, leaving you with a cheap plastic hanger. You can easily unhook or keep them in position while you take clothing on and off. We select budget-friendly options, then order each at retail price. After testing a finalist selection of six general-purpose hangers, we determined that our favorite is the Proman Kascade Hanger, a versatile model with features such as a loop for space-saving cascading hanging, a uniform durable construction, a smooth finish where wood may meet fabric, and a ball-end hook to prevent snagging. No cherry-picked units sent by manufacturers. Perhaps the biggest downside is the price. This is largely attributed to the rubberized coating overtop the metal construction. A slim hanger with the most secure clips we tested. Two stand-out space-saving clothes hangers include the Proman Kascade and House Skirt. Finally, we take note of top performers, which forges our recommendations. Not to mention, she's been hanging her own clothing for over 30 years. So, if you do buy, we'd recommend purchasing a few extra to replace some that might break. We also evaluated how easy or difficult it was to put each hanger ontoa closet rod or to remove it. Timothy Leung, fashion designer. A look at the different clamps in this review. The JS Hanger Non-slip Pants Hangers is a unique open-ended hanger that we fell in love with. If the clamps are insufficiently padded with rubber, they can crease or damage fabrics when you remove them. And the pant hanger didnt break when we pulled across the pant bar, but our pulling did expose a gap at the joint that could pinch a garment (though this isnt a problem with the barless shirt hanger). Also, the lower rung will bend out (but not break) when you hang a heavy pair of pants since the materials are thinner. We can't say that the "space-saving" claim is terribly accurate; this product also doesn't feature any clips for a skirt or pants to be hung from the waist. It also features a wider profile, allowing you to easily hang clothing of all different sizes. Slippery silk shirts? If price isnt a concern for you, we can easily recommend the Kirby Allisons Hanger Project Luxury Wooden Felted Trouser Bar Hanger, sold in sets of five. Its very wide shoulder yoke supports the heaviest garments without causing dimpling or creasing. Weve added Mawas Space-Saving Hangers as an upgrade pick. This open-ended hanger is super sturdy and well-balanced which offers excellent performance for hanging pants and skirts. A slim design with a coating that grips fabric but also allows pants to slide off the bar easily. Our favorite easy-to-use options are the Proman Natural Wood Kascades and Zober Wooden. Lastly, the rubberized material does attract pet hair that can be hard to remove and requires two hands for removable. A good hanger will keep your closet tidy and your clothes neat and free of damage. Garment notches also covered in felt flocking prevent slipping, making this model the best womens fine-garment hanger for blouses and shirts where delicate fabrics deserve extra care. Whether it's finding great products or discovering helpful advice, we'll help you get it right (the first time). The texturized surface is quite friction-y, ensuring that your clothing will stay in place and off the floor. Available in three styles, these hangers make a bit of a trade-off in durability and refinement. During our testing period, no hangers broke when hanging up garments or pulling clothes off, but when we subjected it to our breakage tests, it immediately shattered after flexing and bending it just a single time. No problem. Pant and skirt holders have clamps to keep clothing in place or an open-ended design. Also, the clamps are adjustable to easily accommodate different sizes of pants or skirts, including plus sizes. Our biceps and triceps got a great workout trying to bend it out of shape. It features a plastic construction that doesn't flex or bend under the weight of heavy denim or a suit. We were able to bend and break it after three hand bends. (Although, we havent experienced this while long-term testing our favorite flocked hanger.) The clothes hangers with the best all-around non-slip performance are the velvet contenders, which include the Zober Premium Velvet Skirt and Amazon Basics Slim Velvet Non-Slip. With bonuses like shoulder notches for slim-strapped tops and loops for tiered hanging, as well as a slightly lower price per hanger, this hanger style bests our previous pick, The Container Stores wooden hangers. The material first bent then eventually broke with ample force applied. These hangers have received some of the best customer reviews weve seen, with an average of 4.8 stars (out of five) across just over 600 reviews on The Container Stores site when we first published this guide. The only hanger that remains intact is the JS Non-slip Pants Hanger. Here are the factors we considered according to hanger type. The hooks have a sharp tip, unlike the Proman styles ball end. Other clamps like those found in the House Day Skirt and Zober Premium don't have as much force behind the spring, and the vinyl tips keep most articles of clothing in place and safe from damage. The Proman Kascade features a small circle in the hook, which allows you to stack them when you've got clothing loaded onto the arms. It'll still flex under weight, but it took three big bends (with a lot of force) to snap it in half during the bending tests. The appearance of creasing varied depending on the humidity and the diameter of the pant arms, but we needed a light steam or ironing to remove marks indented onto our lightweight suit pants. On top of that, you can purchase them in smaller lots of six, which comes out to a very reasonable $1.33 per hanger as of this writing. In addition to a textured surface, other ways to make a hanger non-slip include incorporating grooves, hooks, or clamps into the architecture. We loaded each hanger up to see if it flexes or bows under five pounds of weight. If you have delicates that'll likely slip off the arms of plastic hangers, this Amazon Basics Slim Velvet hanger is a great option. Unfortunately, the lower rung can easily be pulled off, which strips it of points in the durability metric. Unlike our Proman pick, these come in three variations: basic, barless shirt hangers; shirt hangers with bars, suitable for hanging pants; and blouse hangers with notches for thin straps plus ribbed plastic to prevent shirts from sliding off. Skirts: Hangers designed for skirts often consist of just a single metal rod with two adjustable metal clamps attached across each end for holdinga skirt at the waistline. Their anti-slip PVC coating (available in several colors) keeps even the slinkiest clothes from falling to the floor. The upper arms, however, are bomber. The Proman Products Kascade Natural Wood is a wooden wide-armed clothes hanger with excellent overall performance. We found them more customizable and less likely to stretch or crease clothing than other slim hangers. Of the clothes hangers specific for hanging skirts and pants, we absolutely can't get enough of the JS Non-slip. This hanger is almost identical to the Proman Kascade, except its wingspan is a little smaller, doesn't have a space-saving rung, and comes with a non-slip lower rung. For example, plastic options like the Sharpty Black Hanger and Utopia Home Plastic have these features which allow you to hang delicates with sewn-in straps with ease. The 1.15-inch shoulder flare is gently flocked at the ends. The Utopia Home White Plastic is another high-value option constructed from thinner plastics.
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