Special Hangers for Heavy/Expensive Leather Jackets?

[Peacoat]

You can find 'em, HD. I let my wife watch that so she will know just how bad the wire is. None in my closet. Vintage Peacoats go on 3" hangers; leather goes on the floor.

 

[Tkecks]

I just bought some hangers for my overcoats. Width is the hardest thing to find. I bought a few temporary hangers from target: they had nice wide white plastic hangers, although I would like a little more thickness, they at least won't distort the shoulders as much (especially if I can find some shoulder-widening add-ons)

Also, as much as the wooden hangers look nice, I had a bad experience a few ears ago putting a wet light-coloured shirt on a wooden hanger. Some of the stain got into the shirt, not much, but enough to annoy me. As such, I am a little concerned about wooden hangers and my wool overcoats (since sometimes they might get wet if it is rainy / snowy), and I try to source wide plastic hangers. I can't imagne the inside of a leather jacket would get wet so easily.

 

[ButteMT61]

The wooden hangers I got are not going to stain anything - they also make white painted ones and raw cedar hangers. The only reason I didn't get the cedar was they were a tad smaller. But good wooden models won't stain anything. If you spend $10-$15 on a hanger for a $500-$1500 jacket, it's not a big deal.

 

[Hammer Down]

Great posts. I think I will get a cedar box or something for my leather jackets. Anything as heavy as an Aero seems like it could warp in the shoulders. Then again, the shoulders are very strong, indeed. I now have seven leather jackets, one of which is an Aero. In some open boxes they go. Good thing moths don't eat leather! Or do they. . . I suppose my Mouton collar is vulnerable.

 

[pauleway]

I get heavy duty wide wood hangers from Bed-Bath+Beyond(local store)

 

[IXL]

The Aerostitch hangers are about 5.00" wide and are called Shoulder Savers

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Plastic hangers for shirts. Cedar clamp hangers for trousers. Wide cedar hangers for everything else.

 

[Panacheman]

I'm with the loungers that leather belongs on the floor however a massive pile of leather jackets is not so much a conversation piece as it is an eyesore. I like the idea of buying the expensive hangers with the shoulder savers, but at 10 a pop i could nearly by an areo for the cost to outfit all my leather jackets with one (yes i have a problem and I'm OK with it) so whats a guy to do? well I've found an excellent if inelegant solution. i buy cheap wooden hangers that are long enough for the shoulders on my jackets and then i buy foam pipe insulators from the hardware store (long grey tubes of foam split on one side lengthwise) slip them over the arms of the hangers cut to the desired length and staple them on with a heavy duty staple *** and there you go. this is what i use for the jackets that are in daily rotation those jackets that are seasonally inappropriate spend winter or summer safely tucked away in a massive Rubbermaid away from light heat and well ventilated.

 

[Otter]

Now you have just made me paranoid. Stored my old Irvin (Aviation Leathercraft) on a broad hanger for 18 years with no noticable problems. The new B3 and the new Aero Irvin will stored flat in the bottom of the wardrobe and I have just ordered red cedar moth balls to scatter through them........just in case!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

http://cedaramerica.com/product_info.php?products_id=73&osCsid=5313825a6eff87d929b960269f3586be

 

[ButteMT61]

I used to rig my own too. Figured I owed my jackets (and wife) something more aesthetically pleasing
But it does work!

 

[Panacheman]

I used to rig my own too. Figured I owed my jackets (and wife) something more aesthetically pleasing
But it does work!

haha well Butte my jackets don't seem to mind or at least they haven't spoken up about it. I don't have to worry about the wife as of yet. besides MacGyvering my own gives me more dough to spend on either

 

[Ace Rimmer]

I don't have the luxury of enough closet floor space to pile up my leather jackets so I use these HCD wide shoulder wooden hangers that are available from Amazon for around $7 apiece (shipped free if you have Amazon Prime). Good thing too, as the other day I discovered a puddle of water on the floor of my coat closet (and I have no idea how it got there).

I haven't seen any ill effects from hanging my leather jackets up but you never know. I'm between motorcycles so my Vansons have been hanging unused since 2005 or so without issues. Note that my Vansons all have armor (and being the lazy bloke that I am, I left the armor inside the jackets) so that may improve their resistance to having been on a hanger for years without problems.

 

[ultrark2004]

i steal mine from nordstroms. usually after a pant or coat repair

 

[Tkecks]

I don't have the luxury of enough closet floor space to pile up my leather jackets so I use these HCD wide shoulder wooden hangers that are available from Amazon for around $7 apiece (shipped free if you have Amazon Prime).

What width are these hangers? The amazon page lists their packing size as 15" which is rather less than the 19-20" I would like.

 

[alfyman]

I learned the Hard way, I did own a nice expensive sheepskin leather Jacket years ago, and I remember the instructions said not to use a hanger, well after throwing that info away.. I used a wooden hanger and found that the next year I pulled out my Jacket and found bumps stretched out on the shoulders, i thought they would go away, but no.. I was only 23 then, 20 years later I now truly see the value..I sold the Jacket back when ebay didn't have pictures to show, Somebody owns this and It will have bumps on the shoulder, Anyway.. I lay my jackets from now on, no matter what..

 

[Hammer Down]

Alfyman:

Remind me never to buy anything from you ; )

 

[IXL]

Alfyman:

Remind me never to buy anything from you ; )

I had the same thought when I read the post.

 

[ButteMT61]

Just like raising kids - best way to learn is to enroll in the school of hard knocks!

 

[kyboots]

Throw mine onto the back floorboard. It does much better there. Leather likes it rough!! Ooohh! what a thought! lol. John