Kilt Hanger Opinions

[CDNSushi]

Check out these -

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f139/storage-62625/

They are about a dollar at Ikea. Work great.

Jim

Unfortunately, I disagree. (Respectfully, of course, but vehemently). The reason being, that I have a closet full of these things right now, and currently they are holding up half of my kilt kollection but I am very unhappy with them. I will eventually switch over to the clip-style hangers, but that's just one of those things that I have to get around to one of these days. And on the list of priorities, it's a fairly low one at the moment.

I've included (and marked up) a photo of an IKEA hanger to illustrate the problems:

(a) is the weak link. This part of the hanger is the weak link. It's made of cheap, molded and hardened plastic. Once, I bought 20 hangers, and 10 of them were already pre-broken when I examined them at home. Then, 5 more broke on me shortly after. In addition, I'm constantly having a problem with the top part of the hanger coming completely apart from the bottom portion. These things aren't made in Sweden, but China.

(b) does not support as much weight as the middle portion of the hanger. This means that unless the kilt's weight is supported evenly along the entire length of the clip, and because (a) is made of plastic, it doesn't actually cause the wood pieces to clamp down very hard, you run into a situation where the kilt starts sliding off the hanger at point (b). There is a strip of felt on the inside of the clip portion designed to make it less slippery, but for my kilts it's not very effective. It just doesn't raise the friction coefficient high enough. Once the sliding starts, Newtonian inertia takes over and then it's like cheese sliding off a cracker. Especially in this earthquake prone country, many times I've opened my closet to find all my kilts crumpled in a heap at the bottom of my closet.




So maybe some have found more success with these things than I have, but unfortunately they aren't very effective for me.