This blog offers a look at old clothes hangers (currently 0) and is part of the Blaufußtölpel. The hangers shown are tagged and otherwise not commented on, even those that might require distancing.

Although clothes hangers nowadays lead a life in the closet, they are also part of local economic history. As advertising media that do not lose their functional value as quickly as a dried-up ballpoint pen or an empty lighter, they offer an insight into a time when the clothing market and related services were not yet so dominated by larger companies.

• Private collectors: They have a renowned collection (as evidenced by media coverage) or make their collection publicly searchable (e.g., through an online catalog). In addition, they offer an equivalent object for exchange.
• Public institutions (such as archives and museums): They place the object (digitized and equipped with metadata) in a search portal accessible via the web (such as “Archivportal D”) at short notice and name the donor in the metadata.
• For loans, attribution, a copy of the catalog, or a photo in context (with full and permanent rights of use and exploitation) are expected.

Further information can be found in the relevant sections of my homepage:

• Donations / Gifts
• Loans

Please address these points in your inquiries.

Keywords

The keywords used generally describe the location and type of business being advertised. For example, laundries and dry cleaners are grouped under “dry cleaning”, furriers and furriers’ workshops under “furs”, men’s outfitters and similar businesses under “clothing stores”, and department stores and warehouses under “department stores”. Larger companies or different companies owned by branches of a family are tagged separately. Keywords with fewer than three entries are not displayed.

Further statistics

• All hangers: 4

• Materials

  • Made of wood: 149
  • Plastic: 10
  • (Partially) metal: 5
  • (Partially) metal: 1

• Labeled on both sides 25

• Types

  • Trouser hangers: 1
  • Skirt hangers: 2
  • Children’s hangers: 2
  • Adjustable: 3
  • Foldable: 0

• Specific manufacturers

  • Union: 6
  • ruwe: 0

• Types of

  • Clothing store: 54
  • Department store: 10
  • Hotel: 8
  • Furs: 6
  • Dyeing: 5
  • State organization: 4
  • Tailoring: 3
  • Furniture store: 0

• Retail chains

  • Karstadt: 5
  • Hettlage: 5
  • C&A (Brenninkmayer): 2
  • Cloppenburg: 2

• Other classifications

  • Advertising: 7
  • Novelty items: 3
  • Without geodata: 55
  • Repaired: 0

My other blogs

My other blogs are now listed on Projektemacher.org.

Colophon

This site is generated with Hugo and hosted by GitHub.

The fonts used are Libre Baskerville and Nuntio.

The visualization of the clothes rack is implemented with Swiper JS.

OpenLayers (https://openlayers.org/) is used to display the map, and the map material is provided by the OpenstreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/) project. The theme is based on Versatiles (https://github.com/versatiles-org/versatiles-style).

The integration of images and the [tag cloud](http://www.johann-oberdorfer.eu/blog/ 2020/02/23/20-02-23_tag_cloud_for_hugo/) are taken from the sources indicated.

Contact

“Kleiderbügel” is a project by Christian Mahnke.

Contact is possible via email.

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