Vintage Hangers
Hangers, no doubt, are items of utility found in every home. However, these immensely useful objects can also be transformed into items of beauty and decoration, with just a little bit of creativity and design. The simple hanger has come a long way in terms of adding beauty and elegance to a person's wardrobe and home.
What are Vintage Hangers?
Hangers are available today in different price ranges. If you are willing to spend a little extra money, you will be able to find a huge variety of hangers in several materials, colors, shapes, sizes and designs that not only look beautiful, but also wear well.
Vintage hangers are some of the most beautiful ones you could use to adorn your closet. These hangers are usually of the best quality, with designs that are related to a particular period of the past. These designs may also be characteristic of the best period of the work done by a person in the past.
Types of Vintage Hangers
A hanger may be made vintage in quite a few ways. A few interesting models of vintage hangers are presented below.
- Vintage Wooden Hangers: These hangers can be really beautiful, reminding one of a glorious part of past eras. Many wooden hangers that are considered vintage are actually from famous clothing stores and merchants of the past. Made of high quality wood, they bear the symbol or logo of old cloth merchants. You can find wooden hangers that have a feel of time periods as early as the 1940s.
- Hand-crafted Hangers: A hanger can be made vintage by some great handmade designs. Wooden, plastic and metal hangers may be hand painted in lovely, sober colors with a deliberate faded effect or distressing, to get that vintage feel. Additional patterns such as flowers may be added to further enhance the elegance of such hangers.
- Padded Hangers: These hangers are padded and wrapped in soft material such as satin. Satin vintage hangers are quite lovely to look at and use, and they are often decorated additionally with ribbons. Regular wooden hangers may be covered with vintage clothing, wallpaper or contact paper designs to create a lovely effect. Hanger covers made with crochet patters also add to the vintage look.
Purchasing Vintage Hangers
Most often, hangers are found in families where they have been passed down through generations. These are, no doubt, the authentic vintage hangers. However, not all of us are lucky enough to have had a grandmother who saved her hangers. For the less fortunate ones, manufacturers design and create hangers that come with a vintage effect. Of course, these tend to be a bit pricey, but they last long and would make you feel great every time you open your closet.
It might be difficult to find vintage hangers in regular stores, though. You might want to look for shops that sell antiques, or items with antique themes. The easier way is to look online. Many websites sell genuine as well as imitation vintage hangers that you could purchase from the comfort of your home.
