I don't think I've ever posted about how I store my clothes? But here they are, except the jackets and coats. A borderline unmanageable amount for me to wear and care for even though there's not that many items all in all.
I keep them in these open air wardrobe and clothes scaffolds to help them stay fresh and to remember they all exist. 😆 Details in alt text!
@sinituulia By the way, have you seen Simone Giertz's folding clothes hangers? She has a youtube video about the many iterations throughout her design process, and I found it quite interesting.
(Not suggesting they are relevant to your clothes storage in any way, just that they're interesting clothes-storage geekery.)
@amenonsen I remember watching the video for a night time fall asleep video... But pretty much nothing about the video itself. 😅 I remember thinking it wouldn't work for me, but can't remember why? Ah, brain.
I've found my most favourite skirt hanger now, and am reasonably happy with the classic wooden hangers for shirts. Still in the process for finding the ideal hanger for dainty Edwardian lingerie...
@sinituulia What did dainty Edwardians use? (Serious question, I have no idea what sources exist to know about clothes storage that long ago. Did people even hang up their clothes, or did they live in wooden chests?)
Aside: the last Nizam of Hyderabad had a 50m+ walk-in wardrobe: https://thenizamsmuseum.com/walk-in-wardrobe/
@amenonsen ...holy shit that's a lot of wardrobe. Wow. 
But yeah, from perusing old catalogues and household guides and such, I'd assume they used sets of drawers for the underwear and such (never to be seen by anyone except the wearer and maybe maids and laundresses) - and preferably of cedar or with cedar balls and bags of lavender etc. in the drawers, to keep them fresh and bug free. And then enclosed drawers with plenty of compartments for all different layers, and pull out hangers and such in tall wardrobes. Anything not in use would get tucked away in chests or other drawers, but this was always a hazard because of moths, damp etc. so it was mostly stuff to be figuratively and literally mothballed. The best stuff would live where you could keep an eye on it, and air it easily, or a carefully kept clothes box.
In less wealthy houses, hanging up clothes close to the fire, especially in the cold season, was nice because the fire would dry them of sweat between wears, and the smoke while making them smell, would also deter pests? 🤔 And you could just toss a coat over a chair or on a nail, and not have the outside dirt touch the inside dirt!
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Abhijit Menon-Sen