Lavender has long been used to naturally relieve nausea alongside other healing properties which the plant holds. Often pregnant women place a few drops of lavender into their bath but it seems the Duchess of Cornwall, Catherine’s step-mother-in-law, recommended she try thr biscuits.

Since trying them the Royal family have been sending Catherine boxes of the biscuits. According to press sources, the Duchess has been joking that some women crave raw onions when they are pregnant but she is trying to keep it classy.

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With this in mind we have launched a new range of lavender products, including:

• Perfumed drawer sachets
• Soap
• Diffusers
• Oil
• Scented wardrobe sachets

The range is perfect for anybody looking for a natural moth repellent – ideal for storing winter clothes away or simply hanging in a wardrobe to keep clothes fresh; alternatively there are some great gifts, toiletries for the spare bedroom or simply lovely treats.

Don’t take our word for it though, the benefits of lavender are known worldwide. With this in mind we have compiled a list of the top ten benefits it provides

1. Cooking – lavender makes an unusual, floral accent in many dishes from ice-cream to cookies (well if it’s good enough for the Duchess of Cambridge…)
2. Dandruff – steep lavender as you would to make tea, allow to cool and use as a daily rinse until dandruff has cleared up
3. Cuts and Scrapes – lavender has natural antiseptic properties and can be used as a protective salve
4. Sweet, Fresh Laundry – a bundle of lavender added to the tumble drier leaves laundry smelling gorgeous
5. Skin Relief – Add lavender oil to your moisturiser or a spray water bottle and apply for relief from burned, chaffed or irritated skin
6. Sleep Accessories – lavender helps you to sleep better – place some on your pillowcase for a great nights’ sleep
7. Bath – add lavender to your bath to promote relaxation and soothe tired muscles
8. Perfume - lavender oil is a gorgeous, chemical-free alternative to perfumes and colognes
9. Tea – a small handful of lavender flowers in boiling water creates a healthy herbal tea, which is as effective as chamomile for promoting sleep
10. Scent – relieves tension and anxiety naturally, rub lavender oil onto your temples for a soothing dose of stress relief

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The humble clothes hanger may appear on the surface to fulfil a rather boring occupation but the importance of it’s role cannot be underestimated. Choose the right hanger and your clothes will keep their shape, store well and reduce the amount of crinked clothing coming out of your wardrobe – in a nutshell it will prolong your clothes lifespan. on the flip side of the coin, a hanger which is too wide might poke out of the sleeves of your favourite coat or jacket, altering it’s form, and thus ruining a garment.

So how do you choose the right hanger for your wardrobe? The most important factor is to determine the type of garment the hanger is supporting. It is probably not worth buying expensive wooden hangers for thin, cheap t-shirts; however, if you have spent money on a new suit or coat then wooden hangers will be well worth the investment for the reason that they will help keep the garment in its form which has been shaped to contour your body. Get it right and your clothes will thank you for it.

Our guide below looks at each type of hanger and the factors affecting each type

Plastic Hangers 

Plastic hangers can be split into two types: very lightweight, inexpensive hangers designed for lightweight items such as t-shirts; or sturdy, well-shaped hangers designed for suits and coats, which will last for many years (these generally have wide-rounded shoulders which will not cause hanger marks on clothing). Some styles come with bars for hanging trousers over or clips for hanging skirts up.

Fabric Padded 

Padded hangers are usually covered in satin or another smooth fabric in order to prevent clothes from snagging. They are designed for lightweight items and are sometimes used for  lingerie. Padded hangers are not designed for heavy garments and using them for heavier items will cause shoulder bumps. Often padded hangers have buttons sewn into the edges to prevent straps from slipping off the hanger. They do not tend to feature a bar or clips for trousers and skirts.

Wood     

Wooden hangers are durable and can easily handle heavier items of clothing. Their strength allows them to carry coats, suits or gowns and ensure they keep their shape. Wooden hangers also offer protection to clothes due to their shape which prevents items from being hung too closely together – allowing more air flow and less abrasion between each item which in turn, means the clothes will last for longer. Wooden hangers come in several styles with or without bars, clips or grips; there is also a wide range of non-slip wooden hangers.

Flocked

Flocked hangers are perfect for light items. The velvet covering provides ample grip for clothing, stopping items from slipping whilst saving space within your wardrobe.

Metal and Wire

These are particularly popular amongst dry cleaning businesses, ironing companies and laundry services. They are inexpensive and come in a variety of styles, although long-term use is not recomended, likewise they are unsuitable for heavier garments.

Non-Slip Hangers

Non-slip hangers are a very popular product for those that like to keep their wardrobe well-organised. The keep clothing in good order, ensuring that garments remain hung perfectly in place, reducing the likelihood of items falling down and getting dusty or creased. They come in a wide range of styles, varieties and materials and there is a non-slip hanger available for almost each type of garment.

Top Tips

• Avoid wire hangers for all but the lightest of clothing such as shirts.
• Shirts should be buttoned up when hanging as this helps to avoid creasing.
• Hang black clothing inside out, this way it will not pick up fluff from other clothes around it.
• Straighten the shirt or jacket so that the topmost part of the shoulder rests at the crest of the hanger.

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The problem is that organising and storing all those winter woollies is often a traumatic job that we look for excuses to avoid… until the wardrobe gives way under all the strain, as happened to me last year.

Having spent months stuffing ‘just one more top’ into my poor wardrobe, it decided it had had enough of me and collapsed in a sorry heap of jumbled up clothes, shoes and bags onto the floor. The sorry mess did provide a silver lining however, as sorting out my clothes became a job which could no longer be avoided.

Here’s How I Went About It

1. The first thing to do is empty your wardrobe contents onto the bed and sort into piles – things to keep, things to throw away, items to sell or donate to local charities, and finally, a ‘maybe’ pile.

2. Anything stained or worn needs to go straight away. Try clothes on and anything that doesn’t fit you any longer should also go,  eventually you should end up with a ‘keep’ and ‘maybe’ pile. Check through both piles a few times and you should end up with just a ‘keep’ pile.

3. Anything in the ‘keep’ pile that isn’t suitable for this time of year can be packed away. Utilise the space in your home – bulky winter clothing and bed linen can be placed into underbed storage chests, or vacuum sealed storage bags which can be put in the loft. My wedding dress was taking up wardrobe space, but this was rectified by placing it in a protective cover to keep it in good condition and again, storing it safely in the loft.

Wardrobe Essentials                                                                                                  

Having decided what to keep and stored all of your autumn/winter clothes away, it is time to start putting your clothes back into your wardrobe. There are many ways in which to organise your wardrobe, I chose to sort mine by garment type and colour, simply because I am always looking for my ‘knee length white skirt’ or ‘high neck pink going-out top’.

This is where it really pays to ensure your wardrobe staples are in good condition. Using good quality wooden hangers and shoe racks for example, will not only help organise your wardrobe more effectively, but they will keep your clothes in good condition for longer.

Top Tips

• Hang all you dresses at one end of the wardrobe as this allows you to utilise the floorspace in the rest of the wardrobe with shoe racks/ boxes containing bags, etc…
• Ensure you include moth-repellent cedar to prevent moths from laying eggs in any clothing being stored for the season.
• Place rolled up magazines in boots to keep them in shape and ensure nothing sits on them which might crush them.
• Ensure any clothes returning from the dry cleaners are taken out of the plastic when they return home. The chemicals in dry cleaning can turn clothes yellow if they are left in the plastic too long. If you want to cover your clothes use a fabric garment bag.

Remember – the point of giving your wardrobe a spring clean (as well as to ensure it doesn’t topple down in  sorry mess), is so that you know exactly what you have got and can find items easily. If it looks a little bare after sorting, then an added bonus is that you can go shopping for more items to re-fill it with!

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We have introduced the perfect solution to help messy teenagers keep their rooms tidy! Our new student pack not only contains everything you’d need to keep your room tidy, it is affordable to! It is more convenient than having to travel to university or college lumbering a huge wardrobe around with you. Our new pack contains:

• 1 x 4ft Clothes Rail
• 1 x 4ft Rail Cover
• 1 x Collapsible Laundry Bin
• 1 x Web Knot Laundry Bag
• 1 x Over-door Hanging Storage
• 1 x Hanging Storage
• 20 x Wire Hangers

You can’t go wrong! Parents, this could be the perfect gift to get your children who are leaving to go to university or even if you are moving accommodation and need something to keep your clothes stored in temporarily! These packs would be equally useful for temporary use when moving house or settling in to unfurnished accommodation.

Don’t miss out! - http://www.hangerworld.co.uk/instant-room-storage-pack/prod_429.html

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In case you’ve wondered what to do with those self-replicating clothes hangers cluttering up the closets of your life, you might want to consider something like these Hangeliers.

What do you do with broken coat hangers? Dump them in the bin of course! Now if you can give them to Nadega, the creative designer, she will come up with a creative piece of functional art. Look at Amplifier, the coat hanger fruit bowl and you will know what I am talking about. The coat hanger fruit bowl is made using a couple of coat hangers and looks good as it sits pretty on you dining table. Now, this is what I call, recycled functional art.

Wooden Coat Hanger Table 44 wooden coat hangers with Light Fitting

A chair made out of coat hangers!

Coat Hanger table by Nick DeMarco

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Transform your hangers from plain old hangers to these handy unique shoe hangers by following these simple steps – will only work with plain metal hangers.

1. Get your old plain hangers ready, along with a pair of pliers, some decorative ribbon and glue. You will need the pliers to cut through the metal.
2. Cut your hangers at the bottom (exactly in the middle) with your pliers.
3. Take each side of the hanger you have just cut and bend them upwards – as shown in the picture.
4. Take your ribbon and wrap it round the top of the hanger, just underneath the hook (as shown in the picture). Make sure you use glue and allow the glue to dry before hanging your shoes on the hangers.
5. Once you are satisfied with your new transformed hangers, you can put them to use. Gather up your shoes and start hanging them on your uniquely designed shoe hangers!

Why throw your hangers away when they can be used for many other useful things?

Get creative and make use of your old metal hangers!

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A most extraordinary trial happened in the High Court back in 2002, in which a man named Chrysler was accused of stealing more than 40,000 coat hangers from hotels round the world. He admitted his guilt, but in his defence he claimed that – well, perhaps it would be simpler just to bring you a brief extract from the trial. Click the link below to read more.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/miles-kington/high-court-hangups-747313.html

Basically, in 2002 a man called Chrysler was accused of stealing 40,000 hotel hangers from hotels all over the world. His reason for doing this was because he “builds and sells wardrobes which are specially designed to take nothing but hotel coat hangers”. 

Here at Hangerworld we sell anti-theft rings for hotel hangers. Maybe all you hotel owners should consider purchasing some of these to prevent people from stealing hotel hangers from you in the future!

And as for Chrysler, he could have just bought our hotel hangers and saved himself the trouble!

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Do you prefer to keep your outfits together in your closet using double hangers? The idea of using can tabs is very useful if you are wanting to make more space in your wardrobe. As shown in the picture, all you have to do is link two hangers together by putting their hooks through each end of the can tab.

However, using can tabs may not be the most stylish way to create more space in your wardrobe and also why only link two hangers together when we have a space saving multi-hanger that allows you to link several hangers together, creating much more space than a can tab would.

The space saving multi-hanger…

1. Increase the hanging space in your wardrobe.
2. Simply place over any hanger hook to create additional hanging spaces.
3. 3 garments per multi-hook.
4. Strong black plastic, ingenious design.

Much more suitable than just an ordinary can tab, so why not purchase our space saving multi-hanger today!

And please feel free to browse the rest of the items that we sell here at Hangerworld.

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