Hanger bums and HH, and advice?

[tempusfugit]

I would certainly never store an original A-2 on a hanger, but does anyone really think the original owners put them in boxes and stored them flat. So with reproduction jackets I would not stress too much if you have a decent hanger with collar support and wide shoulders. Just think of it as part of the proper aging process like all the WW2 vets did. (And yes, I have no doubt that some of them just tossed their jackets in a corner. But their wives probably then hung them up on a hanger and sighed.) Here is the kind of hanger I mean. I inherited this one and no idea where to buy new ones. The ones at the Container Store look much narrower. That being said, I generally cycle my jackets on and off the hangers.

Hang the piss out of those repro jackets! (Apologies to Burt.)

On the other hand, I know lots of people have had problems with storing reproduction shearling jackets on hangers, so beware in that case.

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I think a hanger like this is really the 95% solution for storing jackets, excluding heavy shearling.

To be fair there are cases where using a hanger like this will not work though: my Aero A-2 has a pattern that makes the epaulettes sit somehow in front of the hanger support, which I believe would end up forming bumps behind the epaulettes like in the thread starter image. In that jacket's case it was really obvious it was not a good fit with any of the hangers I had at home. Because of this I store the jacket folded. Other jackets sit very nicely on the wide supports with the shoulder seams going directly over the hanger and I really can't see any damage coming there.

 

[Micawber]

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Jackets - just wear the bloody things.

 

[entertainment]

Jackets - just wear the bloody things.

Only if you give me a ride in the jeep!

 

[TobeDe]

Interesting . I thought just like "rob20uk" that the Aero hanger was the perfekt solutions and I was going the order some of them.
But not now after reading this discussion. Now Its time for the box under the bed like "Shanghai-Mayne" .

/ T...

 

[bn1966]

I’ve used two Aero hangers together for lighter jackets, wasn’t very impressed with them TBH. My own solution is shearlings laid flat and the same with heavy leather. Other leather, I've taped two good quality wooden hangers together and wrapped them in bubble wrap ….. works well.

 

[DylanDog]

Also, I don’t believe I’ve seen it in mentioned but if you are going to put your leather jacket on a hanger it’s good practise to leave it unzipped or unfastened. Although I do hang my jackets (on wide plastic hangers with additional pipe insulation fixed along the shoulders) I presume the same might well apply if a jacket is stored flat.
If a jacket is left fastened it can create prominent unnatural creasing down the front (see photo)
This seems to normally occur on just the one side and is caused by the ‘excess’ leather having nowhere to go, other than fold in on itself.
By leaving jackets unzipped one side of the front can then be tucked over or inside the other to take up the ‘slack’