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Folding (collapsible) travel clothes hanger

Object/Artifact

A two-tone molded-plastic collapsible travel/garment hanger. A central cream/white hook unit (curved hook over a flat triangular yoke) carries two caramel/tan plastic arms that pivot on riveted joints; each arm terminates in a cream/white extension tip with an upturned, notched end. The hanger folds compact for packing — arms swung up alongside the hook (image 1) — and opens to a conventional shouldered hanger form with the arms extended to the sides and the notched tips up (image 2). Pivots are secured by white-centered rivets.

2025.11.42

2025.11

Purchase

Maker: Not identified. No legible maker's or country mark on the hook, arms, or tips. Date: Undatable from the object. Folding plastic travel hangers of this type span much of the later 20th century.

Materials: Molded plastics — cream/white (hook and end-tips; more brittle, possibly polystyrene) and caramel/tan (pivoting arms); riveted pivot joints (metal or plastic, white-centered). Technique: Injection-molded plastic components assembled with riveted pivot joints to allow folding.

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