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Choosing Garment Racks and Other Retail Displays

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:32:00 +0000

There are so many decisions to make when you are stocking a retail store. This article can be used as a guide to determine which garment racks and store displays will work best for your store. We will consider your merchandise, longevity of the products and the space you have available when you make your final decisions.

Use a manufacturer of store displays that has a proven track record of service and quality. Do not sacrifice quality for gimmicks like free shipping, major store display and garment rack suppliers offer this anyway. Using one supplier for most of your store display needs will make things easier. If you determine that what you ordered was not exactly right for your store, you can return it and exchange it for something else that the supplier offers.

If the supplier is also the manufacturer, then you will get better prices and usually a higher selection of quality products to choose from. You can generally assume that the quality of one item from the manufacturer will match the quality of other clothing racks and store displays that they sell. For example, if you get a beautiful wooden garment rack from your supplier that seems like you could throw it from a building and it would be okay, and then you order a vintage style garment rack from the same company, you should be able to assume that it will not have sharp corner, rickety legs and shotty construction.

Make drawings to determine the most efficient and pleasing configuration of displays for your store. Play around with different types of garment racks to suit your needs. If you want more open space or have a big inventory for your available space, consider using wall displays to maximize the area. Gridwall and slatwall are great for displaying and help you design a lot of display configurations.

Weigh the costs of each design that you like. You do not necessarily want to go with what is cheapest. Weigh the life expectancy of each item and determine if the need to replace it may make it more expensive than the higher quality option. Plus, if you end up with wobbly, badly designed racks, you will have wasted all of that time and money, while making a bad impression on your customers. Not only that, but sharp edges are dangerous and could be a liability for you. They can also snag clothing and make you lose money on inventory. Shotty construction could fall over and injure someone. There are a lot of reasons to choose high quality garment racks.

Quality displays that properly display your merchandise without cluttering your store can establish a favorable brand image for your retail store. Good clothing racks and displays can help you make more money, establish a good customer opinion and protect you from possible liability.

About the Author: Ron Maier is the Manager of Only Garment Racks, a leading online resource for garment racks and clothing racks. Only Garment Racks is recognized for the excellent quality and value of its garment rack and clothing rack offerings. For more information, please visit http://www.onlygarmentracks.com.

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:26:00 +0000

Creating a lighting scheme is an important part of designing your retail store. There are a lot of points to consider when you are making this decision, so make sure that you do not neglect to analyze each point before you install.

Fluorescent lights are the cheapest you can get. The fixtures and bulbs are inexpensive to buy, install and maintain. Fluorescent lights are good for lighting up big warehouses and stores where lighting will not be used to showcase items, draw attention to promotions or reduce the risk of theft. If this does not sound like it would suit your store, consider using as much natural light as possible to keep lighting bills down. Halogen and LED lights also use very little energy.

Spotlighting is very effective for drawing attention to neglected areas of a store or showcasing a promotion. Analyze places where you envision promotional tables, racks or showcase walls. Make sure that you install spotlights or hanging lights in these areas so that you can draw attention when needed. You may even put these lights on a dimmer, so that when you do have a big promotion, you can increase the lighting in a particular area. Remember to incorporate a lot of lighting options in your front windows or window display cases. Sometimes you may want it to be darker with just one spotlight. You may want a series of mannequins to be spotlighted, or you may want the whole display lit up like the outdoors.

Use lighting to deter theft. This can be very important, so consider all of these points when determining how to use lighting to reduce shoplifting in your store. Studies have shown over and over again how comfortable people are when they shoplift in a darker area. Poorly lit corners are where a thief will go to steal from your store. Eliminate them by using spotlights and reflective materials in this area.

Sometimes all you need is a small lamp to illuminate an area. Corners that are hidden from the view of your cashier should have very harsh lighting and mirrors. Bright lights and mirrors make people a lot more nervous about shoplifting than they would normally be. Even stores with adequate lighting, cameras and mirrors are at risk if their dressing rooms are not properly lit. Spotlights in particular, no matter how small, are shown to give people the impression that they are being watched.

The next tip in lighting design is to maximize the lighting impact by using a lot of reflective materials in your store. Strategically place mirrors and chrome clothing racks where lights can bounce off of them and bring more light to darker areas. These strategies can almost double the amount of light in a store without running up the power bill. Reflective surfaces can be used on your dressing room doors, counter tops and walls as well.

About the Author: Ron Maier is the Manager of Only Garment Racks, a leading online resource for garment racks and clothing racks. Only Garment Racks is recognized for the excellent quality and value of its garment rack and clothing rack offerings. For more information, please visit http://www.onlygarmentracks.com.

Marketing Impact and Safety of Retail Garment Racks

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:21:00 +0000

Your retail store garment racks help you to display your inventory. Decisions that you make concerning your garment racks and other store displays can be important when it comes to making a good impression, protecting clothing inventory and protecting yourself from liability.

Some retail stores choose the cheapest garment racks they can find because they do not stop to think about how the quality of the rack will affect them. The garment rack needs to reflect the quality of your retail store, and here is why. People use their impressions of your equipment, lighting, cleanliness and other factors to assess the quality of the products that you offer. If the garment rack is unstable, not level, squeaky or looks like it could fall apart at any second, it will quickly become the focus and could become the reason that the customer thinks your store is of low quality.

The lower quality garment racks can also pose many dangers and can make you liable for injury. Children especially are hard on clothing racks. They love to play around inside of circular garment racks and often hang or climb on them. If the clothing rack breaks and the clothes fall on a child, they could suffocate. They could also be hurt by falling or by the heavy rack falling on top of them. Some racks have sharp edges that can cut customers as they walk by. They can also snag clothing and cause you to lose money on inventory and inventory replacement. Plus you have the cost of periodically replacing broken racks.

High quality garment racks have very sturdy construction. Swivel garment racks should not squeak, stick, vibrate or squeal. The bars should have a strong enough finish that they do not scratch easily or rust. Scratched up bars are not only an eyesore, but also can make your hangers stick and become hard to move. The hangers could also start to make that metal on metal sound that nearly everyone avoids. High quality chrome finishes slide smoothly and withstand a lot of use. Purchasing high quality garment racks also ensures that you do not have sharp edges exposed, posing a liability.

High quality garment racks are a good investment for a number of reasons. Drawing the eye and making a good impression is the main goal of any display, but ensuring the safety of your customers and improving their shopping experience can pay off in other ways. High quality garment racks will help you to make that good impression and give you the peace of mind that you need when you are the one responsible for making this decision.

About the Author: Ron Maier is the Manager of Only Garment Racks, a leading online resource for garment racks and clothing racks. Only Garment Racks is recognized for the excellent quality and value of its garment rack and clothing rack offerings. For more information, please visit http://www.onlygarmentracks.com.

Clothing Racks for your Retail Store

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:19:00 +0000

Your clothing rack and hanger choices could have more of an impact on your retail brand than you may realize. Lighting, store fixtures, logos and signs all have an influence on what your customers think and feel. Customers draw conclusions about your store quality using the impressions that they get as they go through your store.

Store fixtures say a lot about the quality of your products and your store. Things like counter displays and garment racks show how much time, effort and care you took in showcasing your inventory. You may think that clothing rack and store fixture quality has much bearing on your brand image, but it really does, more than you may think.

For example, if someone comes into your store and starts sifting through your inventory, they form an opinion. If the garment racks are shaky and seem to be falling apart, that reflects on you. If your racks are packed tight with clothes where you cannot see what is there, then who is going to bother digging through it? Tangled hangers, broken plastic hangers or shotty metal clips that tear and damage clothes all make you look cheap and like you do not care. Or even worse, it can look like you cannot afford any better, so something must be wrong with your store. Customers will draw conclusions about your quality by assessing the quality of the items surrounding them.

Using nicer hangers and clothing racks keeps your store from looking cluttered. Studies have shown that people who see wooden hangers or interesting displays automatically assume that the store quality is higher. They are willing to spend more money on the merchandise from these stores because they assume that the quality of the clothing is higher as well.

Nice hangers not only make a good impression on your customers, they help protect your inventory, too. Investing in high quality hangers is not as big of an expense as you might think. Hangers made from wood or satin do not snag or stretch delicate fabrics. They stay slightly separated making it easier for customers to find sizes and prices. They make the overall impression of your store a more positive one.

Higher quality store displays, like wood hangers and garment racks, are the backbone of your store image. When a customer is shopping in your store, you are essentially promising them a high quality product. When they look around and see what there is to offer, they are assessing whether or not they can trust that promise. Image is important and quality can help save you a lot of money in the long run. By giving your customers that extra boost in trust, they can feel more confident in paying higher prices for your merchandise.

Consider all of these things when you stock your store with hangers, garment racks and other retail store displays.

About the Author: Ron Maier is the Manager of Only Garment Racks, a leading online resource for garment racks and clothing racks. Only Garment Racks is recognized for the excellent quality and value of its garment rack and clothing rack offerings. For more information, please visit http://www.onlygarmentracks.com.

Storage in Mud Rooms

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:11:00 +0000

It’s wintertime, which in many parts of the country means it’s the season to wear bulky coats, scarves, hats, gloves and boots, among other items. This much outerwear is great when you are outside in the elements and it keeps you warm, but what about when you get home, or when guests arrive? Then, all of a sudden, the outerwear presents a problem. In the spring, summer or fall, it’s no problem if a guest stops by and tosses their jacket over the back of a chair, but in the winter, where will they put all their cold weather gear? Your coat closet or coat rack could easily become overwhelmed.

If you have the space in your home, setting aside a mud room is a great idea. Mud rooms are best located at an entryway; they are called “mud rooms” for a reason—mud often gets tracked in from outside. Thus, tile or linoleum floors make more sense in a mud room than do wood floors or carpet. If you don’t want to use the area inside your front door as a mudroom, try locating it just inside the back door, the door leading from the garage to the house, or some other entryway. Mud rooms are perfect for storage year-round—you can keep everything from sports and outdoor gear to seasonal clothing in mud rooms. That way, your snowboards aren’t taking up space in your garage and your bathing suits and snorkeling gear aren’t taking up space in your bedroom closet or dresser drawers.

Clothing racks in a mud room are the perfect place for you—and your guests—to stow your bulky winter outerwear. A clothing display rack with a horizontal bar on which to hang clothes—like you would find in a department store—is far better for a mud room than a coat rack. On a typical coat rack, wet outerwear rests on top of each other, causing all the items to either stay or get wet, while clothing racks allow each item enough space to spread out and air dry.

In addition, a mud room is a great place to have your washer and dryer. Many of the items stored in a mud room will need to be washed anyway, such as muddy soccer uniforms. Also, the clothing racks you have in your mud room can be used to hang clothing that is meant to air dry rather than be put into the dryer, or to hang clothing cleaned with one of the home dry-cleaning systems available on the market.

About the author: Jon Bassfarm is an Internet content writer who enjoys researching and writing about many subjects including garment racks, clothing racks, landscaping, and much more.

Increasing Your Storage Options

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:07:00 +0000

If you’re lucky, your house is large enough to designate one room, usually a guest bedroom, for all those items that are not used on a daily basis, yet are useful enough (are they really?) to keep them hanging around. How many of us have at least one room or closet in our house designated for overflow? Often this room is in complete disarray due to the copious amount of clothes and other items that seem to find their way there, yet are never put away or organized; a very real, “I’ll get to it later” sort of room. Today is the day to organize that room. Organizing that mess will undoubtedly allow for less wasted time spent searching within its walls and help to liberate the room from being used as only a “junk room”, once everything has found a proper place.

Organization is key. Organization just makes good sense, but eludes the best of us due to the initial investment of time and energy it demands. True enough, four walls and a floor alone do not offer many storage options other than piling. Piling is exactly what got you into this mess, and it’s time to take the bull by the horns. A shelving unit can be very affordable and readily purchased from a big box store or online and assembled using very minimal tools. Having shelves to place objects that make their way into this room or should make their way into this room would be invaluable. Perhaps your storage room will have a double life, a new life as a sort of chore room, with shelving and a desk dedicated to sewing on buttons or repairing zippers. Perhaps a craft room or home office can spring forth as well, once the organizing ball starts rolling. Once everything is off the ground, all sorts of space can open up; could a treadmill fit in the corner? Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. What to do with all those clothes? A rolling garment rack, perhaps even a collapsible one would do the trick. Hanging those clothes on a clothes rack will help keep them easily accessible, even providing a spot for extra drying and airing out after washing and drying them. A garment rack could help provide a more organized “holding area” for finished clothes, allowing family members to simply check the rack when looking for a particular item instead of constantly asking you or your spouse where it might be.

With only a few organizational tools like a clothes rack, shelving, and a desk, new storage and maybe more importantly, new usage of your storage room could possibly inspire new hobbies while organizing your home life a little better in the process!

About the author: Jon Bassfarm is an Internet content writer who enjoys researching and writing about many subjects including garment racks, clothing racks, landscaping, and much more.

Minimizing Your Need to Iron

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:06:00 +0000

Of all laundry related chores, ironing is definitely the pits. But what’s the alternative? Pick a job where wrinkles are the norm such as ditch digging or day laborer? Send all your clothes out to be laundered for a steep price, but receive the piece of mind that they will be wrinkle-free and ready to wear when you need them? Okay, granted, the picking the career by the clothes you’ll need to wear is extreme, but you would be surprised how many people would rather pay top dollar to have their clothes laundered rather than invest some money and time to allow them to achieve the “laundered” look in their own home, for much less.

A step towards better looking clothes with less effort and less expense is by simply changing up your fabric softener. You don’t use fabric softener in your dryer loads, you say? Well there’s a problem right there. Not only does fabric softener leave your clothes smelling fresher, longer, it also helps the tumble action of your dryer literally tumble out the wrinkles from the wash. Many new brands claim to be wrinkle-free so take them up on that, give them a try! Removing your clothes quickly from the washer and transferring them to the dryer immediately also goes a long way towards wrinkle-free by continuing the laundry process; allowing your wet clothes to sit in the washer helps wrinkles form, become set-in, and therefore difficult to remove. Another trick that I learned from my mom many years ago is to remove clothes from the dryer before they are completely dry. Take each article and give it a good shake and a whack (like popping a teammate with a towel or less violent, unfurling a flag), shocking the wrinkles out with the movement. Then all that remains to do is to hang the clothes on a rod or hanger, touching no other clothes, and left to dry that last bit of the way. Slimmer, space-saving hangers are readily available that allow many clothes to be hung together. Throw out those old wire hangers and buy new slim plastic ones that do a much better job while taking up a lot less space. By folding your non-hanging items while a little damp (not soaking), you will be happy to find them to appear pressed when you remove them from your chest of drawers or closet for wearing. By simply following these easy steps, you will find yourself spending less time ironing your clothes and more time wearing them and impressing your friends and family with your new style!

About the author: Jon Bassfarm is an Internet content writer who enjoys researching and writing about many subjects including clothes hangers, slim hangers, landscaping, and much more.

Summer is Over, Time to Store Those Clothes

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:18:00 +0000

Closet space can become a valuable commodity in the homes of most Americans. Larger families are finding themselves squeezing into smaller houses as the economic situation in America worsens and finding space for all the stuff can be trying to say the least. As the season changes, many find it essential to store summer clothing until the time of year returns when it is comfortable to wear them, helping to free up valuable closet space for the winter and spring clothing that is currently being worn. While finding the storage space might still be a difficult task, owning the necessary tools for proper storage can make next season’s unpacking to wearing transition quicker and easier.

Before storage, it is essential that all of your clothes and accessories are clean, so this should be first on your “to do” list. Washing them thoroughly and drying with a pleasant smelling or fragrance free fabric softener will help them stay their freshest during the winter months. Taking care to fold your t-shirts, shirts, and other foldable tops into neat and small packages, place them within a large plastic bag or wrap them in plastic, inserting several dryer sheets within to keep the fresh smell permeating for the next several months. Storing these relatively small packs of foldable clothes are easy, just find dust-free cardboard boxes, and you’re good to go. Now for the difficult items, the hanging summer blouses and slacks. Purchasing a box designed for hanging clothes with a rod supplied are readily available at many moving stores and also at some “big box” stores such as Target. Since these boxes are designed to hold only a certain amount of hanging items, it is necessary to pack them as tightly as possible in order to maximize the storability. This is where slimmer hangers are extremely helpful. Innovations in plastic manufacturing have made it possible to fabricate plastic hangers in assorted sizes and colors that are much stronger than the cheaper wire hangers of yesterday. These slim hangers have the ability to take up less space, maintain their lightness, and yet perform better than large and bulky wooden hangers as well. Slim hangers are just what you need to store your clothing in tighter fashion, making pushing them in tightly together, possible, without worry of damage or excessive wrinkling.

With the appropriate storage tools like slim hangers and hanging boxes, all of your summer clothes will be ready to wear when the warmer months arrive, and easily stored until warmth returns!

About the author: Jon Bassfarm is an Internet content writer who enjoys researching and writing about many subjects including clothes hangers, slim hangers, landscaping, and much more.

Keeping Little Ones’ Rooms Picked Up and Looking Great

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:25:00 +0000

If you have a growing family or have ever visited friends that have small children, you undoubtedly have noticed the house is often a sea of children’s clothes, toys, and accessories. While keeping all of the children’s accoutrements in their respective rooms goes a long way towards clearing clutter out of common areas, how in the world can you keep their rooms organized and looking their best? With the right organizational tools, your house, and yes, your children’s rooms can be relatively clutter-free, allowing for space to play and enjoy those toys on a daily basis.

While bookshelves do wonders for organizing and keeping children’s bedtime books up and out of the way of little (and big) feet, they are usually packed to the gills and not the best for storing plastic and wooden toys and games. Cubes are great organizational tools, and making them can be a fun and easy project you and your children can attempt together, even on a relatively small budget. Of course, you could run down to your local IKEA or other sort of department store, spending a bundle on pre-made shelving and cubes, but why not make it more fun for everyone? All you need is plywood, nails (or Gorilla Glue or Liquid Nails), a skill saw, and a hammer, and you’re in business. Assuming you possess even the most basic of math skills, cutting and assembling cubes for toy storage is achievable without an engineering degree or journeyman carpenter status.

Now for those mountains of children’s clothes! Dressers and chests of drawers are fantastic for foldable, storable clothing items such as undergarments, sleepers, and t-shirts, but those items that demand hanging need appropriate organization as well. Closets are great for hanging clothes and shoes inside, keeping items out of the way and off the ground. Often however, children are delegated to rooms that might not have a closet, such as a library or home office, when a family expands outside the parameters of their home. In this case, a garment rack can be an excellent tool to place in the corner of a child’s room to alleviate the need of a missing clothes closet. Garment racks are often mobile as well, having wheels for easy placement and movement within your house, from laundry room to kid’s rooms, etc.

Organizing your house can be difficult, but is unfortunately a necessary evil with all of the things a growing family can accumulate over a given year. With the right tools, organization may not be exactly a snap, but definitely doable!

About the author: Jon Bassfarm is an Internet content writer who enjoys researching and writing about many subjects including garment racks, clothing racks, landscaping, and much more.

Keeping That Perfect Blazer Looking its Best

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:57:00 +0000

Finding a blazer or sport coat that fits just right can be an arduous task. Throw in the desire for a particular color or style, and you could spend all weekend, searching the department store racks for just that perfect coat. Correct feel and fit through the shoulders and chest is essential for a jacket to make the leap from rack to shopping bag to home closet. What good is the perfect feel at the department store, if, day in and day out, that jacket feels less than its best due to improper storage? Caring for a jacket properly begins and ends with the way you store it inside your closet’s confines. Proper storage goes a long way toward keeping your jacket ship shape for wearing when you need it.

A proper hanger, designed especially for a sports coat or blazer is essential for every man’s closet. Hangers are available in all shapes and sizes, and the material they are made from is varied as well. In the past, it was necessary to purchase a bulky wooden hanger in order to adequately support the weight of a wool blazer. Large bulky hangers do little in the way of providing efficient space management in your wardrobe or closet. With today’s innovative plastics, a proper hanger for that blazer can be manufactured thinner and stronger, stacking up well when compared to the large wooden hangers of the past. Slim, plastic hangers now have the ability to pare down the bulk of your entire wardrobe while maintaining sufficient support for all of your outfits, large and small. Keeping the shape of your blazer intact is essential to ensure proper fit for years to come.

Dry cleaning is of course necessary to keep your jacket looking its best, but don’t overdo it. Dry cleaning is only necessary when your jacket is dirty, otherwise, simply have it pressed to keep its shape. Excessive dry cleaning exposes your jackets and suits to chemicals that can produce undue wear and tear and even worn spots on your fabric. A press can even be purchased for home use to allow you to press your own jackets and slacks when necessary between cleanings.

By storing your blazer or jacket in a proper fashion, you will be able to ensure it looks its best each and every time you take it out of your closet. Keeping your blazer hung on a proper hanger is a large and essential step towards keeping you looking your best!

About the author: Jon Bassfarm is an Internet content writer who enjoys researching and writing about many subjects including clothes hangers, slim hangers, landscaping, and much more.

Liven up Your Yard Sale By Displaying Items More Effectively

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:14:00 +0000

As the holidays approach and inclement weather begins, many Americans find their houses growing smaller as they acquire new items for gifts, unpack their winter gear, and purchase new wardrobe accessories for the coming colder weather. Changes of season are excellent occasions for a good closet and storage cleansing, but what to do with the items and clothes you’ve outgrown or have no need for anymore? You could always donate them to charity or give them away to friends, but in the dire state of the U.S. economy, why not try and capitalize on your unneeded items with a good old-fashioned garage or yard sale?

I know what you’re thinking. Yard sales are a lot of work, a big hassle, and no one ever comes, right? Well maybe, just maybe, you’ve been going about things in the wrong way. First off, yard sales are not about junk, but about hidden treasures, so give your junk away and only try and sell good quality items that just aren’t your cup of tea anymore. Advertising is something that is all too often overlooked. Once you have set a date for your big sale, you should post a bit about it in the local classifieds or craigslist to give lookie-loos and bargain shoppers a heads-up. Saturdays and Sundays are the best days to ply your wares as most people are off work and looking for an activity, and what could be better than finding good buys when cash is short? Displaying your items in an attractive fashion should never be underestimated. Whether selling in a retail environment or in your favorite cul-de-sac, organization and display can go a long way. If you have a large amount of hanging clothes you are trying to unload, a great way to organize and display them would be a garment rack. You might have one on hand already, but if not, one can be purchased for not too large an investment and could possibly mean the difference between selling three shirts and thirty-three shirts. Shoppers will have no trouble thumbing through your various hanging separates, shorts, shirts, and pants alike when they are grouped together on a rack rather than in a muddled clump on your lawn. After the big sale, you could either dismantle your clothing rack or better yet, utilize it in your laundry room or walk-in closet for year-round storage and organization.

With adequate organization and attractive display tactics, you will be exceedingly elated as your load of “stuff” grows lighter and lighter. Making extra cash from selling to your neighbors is also a great way to raise some funds for those upcoming holiday spending sprees, so good luck, and sell, sell, sell!

About the author: Jon Bassfarm is an Internet content writer who enjoys researching and writing about many subjects including garment racks, clothing racks, landscaping, and much more.

Making Your Tiny Closet Perform Like a Walk-In

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:28:00 +0000

Small closets seem to abound in newly constructed homes and condominiums, but their constraining size and diminutive interiors need not be a constriction on the organization of the wardrobe within. By employing the correct organization tools and equipment, a small closet can hold a bounteous wardrobe, all the while keeping it easily accessed as well as wrinkle-free. A closet’s performance is only limited by the organization within, and with the right accessories, you will be surprised and impressed with just how much it can hold.

The first thing to do is really take a look in your closet; think about when you last wore each and every garment within. If there is anything within your closet that has not been worn in the last year, definitely give it to charity. In the last six months is debatable, as perhaps anything left hanging on a hanger for that long should most likely leave the premises as well! After this sort of cleansing, you will really get down to the wardrobe you actually wear, and I have no doubt that it will become an amount that is much easier to work with, store, and organize. Now, let’s take a look at the hangers you are using. They are no doubt big and bulky plastic or wood hangers you’ve been given or picked up along the way or perhaps even an assortment of wire cheapies from dry cleaner returns. It’s time to say goodbye to all of them. Seriously. Take all of your hanging clothes off of those hangers and chuck them (the hangers, not the clothes!). Thinner, better constructed hangers need to be purchased that are much better suited to store your precious clothes in a slimmer, more manageable fashion, allowing for better display and ease of accessibility. Local retailers or online specialty stores like onlyslimlinehangers.com, have a large assortment of slimmer hangers that allow for a profile that can better fit the confines of any closet, large and small. A special hanging shoe caddy can get those shoes that are always “underfoot” up, and off your closet floor, allowing for easy choosing on those early mornings where the coffee just hasn’t taken effect yet. A perfect hanger exists for each and every separate, every vest, every tie, and shirt, and must be utilized for the optimum to be reached by your closet.

With a small investment in slimmer, better-constructed and specialized hangers as well as other closet organizational tools, you will be using your closet to its fullest potential in no time, maximizing your storage, and keeping you looking your best.

About the author: Jon Bassfarm is an Internet content writer who enjoys researching and writing about many subjects including clothes hangers, slim hangers, landscaping, and much more.

Choosing the Right Travel Accessories

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:56:00 +0000

Many of today’s Americans find that their occupations require they travel for business several weeks out of each year. With all this travel and many airlines charging an arm and a leg these days for checked luggage, light and successful packing has become a sort of art, which can be achieved quickly and painlessly provided you have the correct tools at your disposal. Fitting a week or a weekend’s worth of clothing and necessities into a single carry-on style garment bag can be accomplished with practice, tenacity, and the right accessories.

The first thing the professional business traveler should invest in is a proper garment bag, the type which can roll up or holds hanging clothing vertically, safely ensuring your hanging separates or suits remain relatively wrinkle-free in transit. This bag needs to be easily carried with a shoulder strap or even with wheels should you have to make an unexpected mad dash from Concourse A to Concourse W at the occasion of a gate change. A range of assorted pockets and zippers is also of necessity as these help in storing toiletries, flight information, and wallet. Of course the compact storage of your clothing in your garment bag, along with the degree of wrinkle-free containment can be limited largely due to the construction and quality of hangers held within. Large, bulky, wooden hangers are and should be articles of the past as developments in hanger construction has afforded them to be produced out of heavy duty plastics that are at once slim and light, yet strong as ever. These hangers come in every shape and size; the variety is endless, as they even come in a boggling array of colors. Slimmer hangers may be purchased at a local retailer or on specialty sites such as onlyslimlinehangers.com. A slimmer hanger can mean the difference between bringing two or five outfits along with you on your sojourn at a new locale for business. Of course, a trip would never be complete without purchasing mini, travel-sized models of your favorite toiletry types. Many department stores like Target have aisles dedicated to these Lilliputian oddities.

Having the right tools on hand can make traveling a little easier and less of a chore. You might find that you will begin to actually enjoy your life on the road, owing it all to becoming organized and streamlined in your packing. Now if only organization of your house or condo was quite so easy, but you have to start somewhere!

About the author: Jon Bassfarm is an Internet content writer who enjoys researching and writing about many subjects including clothes hangers, slim hangers, landscaping, and much more.

Straightening Up That Laundry Room Mess

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:50:00 +0000

When giving a tour of your home to visitors and friends, the room most probably avoided and excluded from showing is the laundry room. Let’s face it, though arguably one of the most important rooms in the house, the laundry room often gets undue attention. The laundry room is often used for storage of all sorts (if you’re lucky to have one large enough), cleaning products and laundry soap are scattered throughout, clothes in cue for folding are in disarray, and some laundry rooms are home to the cat litter box and many other undesirable necessities. How can a person or their family expect to look their best when the room where their clothes are given their beauty treatments is such a disorganized and unappealing mess?

Now the cat box and other unmentionables are your own business, but let’s get those clothes organized, shall we? First thing needed in your laundry room is a folding table. You are lucky enough to have laundry facilities in your home, don’t treat it less amiably than you would your local Laundromat. A table to fold and stack your clothes on is simply acquired and affordable, just check your local white elephant shop for one that fits your space best. Secondly, a garment rack is in order. You can’t very well stack your outfits that are meant for hanging and expect them to come out looking spic and span, now can you? A simple rod can be suspended fairly easy in the corner, or a nice rolling rack can be purchased at a local retailer or even online from a site such as onlygarmentracks.com. Being able to store your hanging clothes properly while they wait to be worn or simply await transport to your closet would add immeasurably to your ability to look your best. Third, a nice shelving unit would help with organizing your assorted detergents, bleaches, and fabric softener for easy use and storage. No more will your cleaning agents be spread throughout the room, all the time threatening to create a mess or sticky spill on your precious clothes or laundry room floor. A simple sweep and pickup will add the finishing touches. See how easy that was? With a few simple additions, your laundry room can be an organized area you can be prouder (if not exactly “proud”) of, and you’ll find the flow of the chores that find their home within will be easier and quicker than ever!

About the author: Jon Bassfarm is an Internet content writer who enjoys researching and writing about many subjects including garment racks, clothing racks, landscaping, and much more.

How to Raise a Responsible Child

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:27:00 +0000

Responsibility is a very important skill that children must learn. It teaches them respect, self-preservation, dedication and how to have pride in themselves. Many parents try to teach responsibility by giving their children chores and punishing them if the chores are not completed. While this may be part of the strategy, it leaves out the important lessons that responsibility should teach.
Having your child do chores with the threat of punishment teaches them that this is something that they have to do to stay out of trouble. Your goal in teaching responsibility should include teaching self-esteem and self-pride. If you teach your child to be proud of what they have accomplished, then the lesson is more likely to stick. Also, they will take this lesson with them into adulthood and parenthood.
Consider how the lessons you teach your child will affect them in the workplace when they are grown. If you have taught them to do the bare minimum to keep out of trouble, then they will only do the bare minimum at their job just to keep from getting fired. If you teach them to be proud of the work that they do and you reward them for doing a good job, then they will want to excel in the workplace. This can create a lifetime of opportunity for them.
Challenging your children is also an important part of teaching responsibility. Raising children that love a challenge can be one of your greatest parenting achievements! Keep chores exciting and add on special bonuses each week to boost enthusiasm about what could be a mundane task. For example, if cleaning the bathroom is part of the chore list, add on extra incentives for cleaning the floor behind the toilet, or wiping down the baseboards. Offer to double the payout for organizing bathroom cabinets, cleaning the toothpaste tube underneath the cap, or disinfecting doorknobs and light switches. Children enjoy special awards and stickers as well as monetary rewards.
Beyond normal chores and reward systems, teach your child that it is more fun to work as a team. Have your children help you fold laundry and make up little poems, songs and dances while you do it. Do not let them in on the fact that you may loathe doing the laundry! Make up folding challenges that can allow your child to earn special childrens hangers, such as beaded Glam Hangers or kids Slim-Line Hangers. Teaching your children to want to succeed can have a big impact on their lives.

About the Author: Ron Maier is the owner of Only Kids Hangers, a leading provider of childrens hangers. The right childrens clothes hangers really make the difference in kid's retail or home organization. For more information, please visit www.onlykidshangers.com.

Ironing Dress Pants and Keeping Them That Way

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:30:00 +0000

Hiring out for laundry service is expensive and unnecessary once you have the right tools and techniques in place in your household. Today, the focus will be on keeping dress pants wrinkle-free and storing them so they will look their best each time you wear them.

A first purchase would have to be an iron. Most irons are very similar with some possessing extra safety features such as automatic shutoff, a helpful addition for busy lifestyles. While shopping for an iron, you might as well pick up an ironing board while you’re there; they are quite inexpensive and do a better job than the dining room table, while being quite a bit more durable and resistant to the scalding heat of your iron. After getting home with your purchases, set up your ironing board, adjusting its height to your liking. It always serves you well to read instructions of all home appliances, so take the time to read your iron’s instruction booklet, especially if this is your first. After perusing your iron’s instruction booklet, you will most likely want to fill it accordingly with water and plug it into a nearby outlet. Make sure you have adequate slack in the electrical cord for ironing activity, and its cord extends out of the path of your foot traffic or your family’s. Check the instruction tag inside the waistband of your pants. There is often a designated temperature for ironing and other tips for proper care of the pants. Some pants have tags that proclaim, “do not iron”; if so, don’t. Set your iron to the recommended temperature and allow it adequate time to warm up, making sure it is resting on its stand or heel, as not to burn or scald the ironing board. After the iron has warmed up, lay your pants on the ironing board lengthwise, with one leg on top of the other. The pants should be folded perfectly in half to ensure the success of this process. Fold one leg up and over the waist, leaving the bottom leg exposed and ready for ironing. Iron this exposed leg, working your way down from top to bottom, slowly, in a circular motion, making sure to steam out the wrinkles. You can place a towel on top of the leg, if so desired, to make sure the pant leg is protected from the direct heat of the iron. After finishing the bottom leg, fold the top leg back over, making sure the inseams of the legs match up, and iron it in the same fashion. Turn the pants over, and repeat the process for the other side of each leg.

You have now successfully ironed your dress pants, but if you’re not going to wear them immediately, storage will be an issue. Specially designed hangers are available to keep those wrinkles out and avoid the middle crease made by cheap wire hangers. Choose your hanger, and neatly hang your pants lengthwise; your pants will be wrinkle-free and ready to wear when you need them.

About the Author: Ron Maier is Chief Executive Officer of onlygarmentracks.com, leading provider of garment racks and clothing racks. For information go to www.onlygarmentracks.com.

Making Your Closet “Livable” Again

noreply@blogger.com (Only Garment Racks) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:19:00 +0000

Do you ever look in your closet and have trouble deciding what to wear on a given day? Let’s try that again, everyone has trouble deciding, but do you have trouble finding what you want to wear? Organization goes a long way, in life and in closets. If you’re like most Americans, the floor of your closet is covered with assorted overflow: mismatched shoes, neckties, hats, etc. All of these articles need to be picked up, organized, and displayed in such a way so that you will actually pick them and wear them. If they’re not pickable or wearable, get them outta there!

After emptying your closet of the articles that don’t have a mate, are extremely tattered and unwearable, or just don’t belong, it’s time to get to the real business at hand: organization. Though some of the reason your closet is in such disarray might be attributed to pure laziness, much of it is probably due to apathy and purely a feeling of “where do I begin?” Let’s begin by getting all of those horrible free, flimsy, and somewhat useless dry cleaner wire hangers out of your closet. These hangers are prone to spilling their contents to the closet floor because of their poor design and overall weak tensile strength. Hangers have come a long way, are more affordable than ever, and are essential to keeping your clothes off the floor and wrinkle-free. Hangers come in all shapes and sizes, and there is a perfectly sized and designed hanger for every article of clothing in your closet. Assorted hangers, usually for sale in multiples but available in singles as well, are readily available online or at brick and mortar retailers near you. A good way to arrive at the styles of hangers necessary to bring your closet back to life is to take a look at its contents. Do you have a lot of slacks or dress pants that need to be organized? Multi-pant hangers that can hold four or more pair at a time might be for you. Is your tie collection most often spread all over the closet floor? Vertical hangers just for ties are available that at the same time save you space and display your ties appealingly so that you can find the particular one you want when you need it. There are even hangers for all those pesky belts that seem to make it to the closet floor as well.

So we’ve arrived at a conclusion, the real reason your closet is unlivable is you don’t have the tools necessary to keep it breathing. A small investment in hangers and closet organizational accessories is just the remedy to resuscitate that closet of yours and breathe life into your wardrobe again!

About the Author: Ron Maier is Chief Executive Officer of onlygarmentracks.com, leading provider of garment racks and clothing racks. For information go to www.onlygarmentracks.com.