Wire is versatile, and wire clothes hangers are often used as cheap sources of semi-tough wire, more available than baling wire for all sorts of home projects clothes hanger
. Many do-it-yourself and children's projects use wire hangers as holders of various types, from keeping a brake caliper from hanging by the brake line during auto repair work, to securing a gate on a bird cage. After sanding, wire hangers also find uses as conducting wire for uses clothes hanger
 as varied as hot wiring cars to games [1] to test hand steadiness. They are commonly used to gain forcible entry into 20th century automobiles whose locks and entry systems clothes hanger
 are not protected from such methods. Hangers have been identified as an implement used for spanking of children or adults, used like a switch, given their ready availability as a household object clothes hanger
.

Collecticus magazine (UK) reported (in October 2007) that clothes hangers have now become collectable (especially those with a famous company or event advertised across the front) clothes hanger
. For example, a 1950 Butlins hanger sold for £10.10 in October 2006 within Collecticus.

A wire clothes hanger was also a featured prop in a central scene clothes hanger
 in the 1981 movie Mommie Dearest, in which Joan Crawford, played by Faye Dunaway clothes hanger
, enters the room of her daughter, Christina, at night while the girl sleeps, to admire the beautiful clothes hanging nicely in her closet. She then becomes enraged upon discovering that Christina has once again used a cheap wire hanger, instead of the expensive padded hangers Joan provided and instructed the girl to use. Joan wakes her daughter and gives her a thrashing clothes hanger
. Joan's fierce cry of "No wire hangers ever!" quickly worked its way into pop culture.

Unfolded wire clothes hangers, because of their use in performing illegal (mainly self induced) abortions (by inserting one in the uterus), are often used in pro-choice rallies clothes hanger
. Whoopi Goldberg used one as a symbol in a pro-choice rally in Washington, D.C. in 2004.

There are two basic types of clothes hangers. The first is the wire hanger, which has a simple loop of wire in a flattened triangle shape that continues into a hook at the top. The second is the wooden hanger, which consists of a flat piece of wood cut into a boomerang-like shape with the edges sanded down to prevent damage to the clothing, and a hook, usually of metal, protruding from the point. Some wooden hangers have a rounded bar from tip to tip clothes hangers., forming a flattened triangle. This bar is designed to hang the trousers belonging to the jacket. There are also plastic coat hangers, which mostly mimic the shape of either a wire or wooden hanger. Plastic coat hangers are also produced in smaller sizes to accommodate the shapes of children's clothes.

Some hangers have clips along the bottom for suspending skirts clothes hangers. Dedicated skirt and trousers hangers may not use the triangular shape at all, instead using just a rod with clips. Specialized pant hanger racks may accommodate many pairs of trousers.

Foldable clothes hangers (http://www.dym.nl) that are designed to be inserted through the collar area for ease of use and the reduction of stretching are an old clothes hangers., yet potentially useful variation on traditional clothes hangers. They have been patented over 200 times in the U.S. alone clothes hangers., as in U.S. Patent 0586456, awarded in 1897 to George E. Rideout.

BOSTON (AP) ― Some dry cleaners say the cost for a single wire hanger clothes hanger
 has more than doubled from 4 cents to 9 cents. That means the cost of your dry cleaning will be going up too clothes hanger
.

The extra wire hanger costs translate to about $9,000 a year in increased costs that cleaners may have to pass on to their customers.

Boston City Council member Sam Yoon tells the Boston  clothes hanger
 Herald he plans to discuss the issue with U.S. senators during an upcoming meeting in Washington concerning Asian small businesses.

The Commerce Department recently increased tariffs on imported hangers  clothes hanger
after an American manufacturer complained that China was unfairly dumping low-cost clothes hangers in the U.S. market.
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There are two basic types of clothes hangers. The first is the wire hanger, which has a simple loop of wire in a flattened triangle shape that continues into a hook at the top. The second is the wooden hanger, which consists of a flat piece of wood cut into a boomerang-like shape with the edges sanded down to prevent damage to the clothing, and a hook, usually of metal, protruding from the point. Some wooden hangers have a rounded bar from tip to tip clothes hangers., forming a flattened triangle. This bar is designed to hang the trousers belonging to the jacket. There are also plastic coat hangers, which mostly mimic the shape of either a wire or wooden hanger. Plastic coat hangers are also produced in smaller sizes to accommodate the shapes of children's clothes.

Some hangers have clips along the bottom for suspending skirts clothes hangers. Dedicated skirt and trousers hangers may not use the triangular shape at all, instead using just a rod with clips. Specialized pant hanger racks may accommodate many pairs of trousers.

Foldable clothes hangers (http://www.dym.nl) that are designed to be inserted through the collar area for ease of use and the reduction of stretching are an old clothes hangers., yet potentially useful variation on traditional clothes hangers. They have been patented over 200 times in the U.S. alone clothes hangers., as in U.S. Patent 0586456, awarded in 1897 to George E. Rideout.