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[alina_s]

I continue with my moratorium on posting depressing facts about work, so I throw out a question I've been pondering.  How do you store your SCA garb?  I ask because I now have eight (!) kirtles (boned bodices with heavy skirts), five shifts, three petticoats, two formal gowns, a loose gown, two pairs of puffy pants, two t-tunics, a sideless surcoat

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[reasdream]

Sleeves and things go in a plastic tub. I specifically looked for a place to rent where I would have the closet space to hang up gowns and things. If I didn't, I would get a sturdy porta-closet and set it up in the basement.

[cbellfleur]

I have a rubber-maid tub for the accessories - hats, coifs, corset, etc. Soon after we bought our house, Donal removed a shelf in the closet of what was my sewing room to raise the rod high enough to fit my long gowns. Several years later, that room became the boys' room. The closet is still for garb!

Donal uses an old trunk and rubber-maid tubs for his garb.

My main problem is finding hangers strong enough for the heavier gowns. Most commercial skirt hangers won't hold heavy skirts - the plastic tabs are too slippery.

[isenglass]

I have a plastic dresser for sleeves, shifts, coifs and assorted smaller pieces. Gowns, kirtles and full-length pieces get hung in the closet where they nestle snugly with my suits and blouses. It can't be helped. My house is so old it has only two closets and the other one is the downstairs pantry.

[urania]

Anything that goes better on a hanger than on shelving, goes on a hanger. (Gowns with full skirts, for instance.) For everything else, we have a set of plastic shelves (from Home Depot I think?) in the other end of the closet where tunics, chemises, etc, get folded up and stored. In an ideal world they are in some kind of order by type, but that didn't last more than a month. There are also a couple clearish plastic bins for hats/veils and accessories that sit on the top shelf.

[greta_k]

Currently, I hang shirts, pants and T-tunics on multi-hangers (shirts and T-tunics on multi-shirt hangers, the pants on multi-pants hangers). Fencing doublets and Venetians hang on wood hangers, as do cloaks. I am currently rearranging the basement SCA closet, and as I make new clothes, my gowns will probably be folded and stored on the shelves.

Accessories, head wear and shifts are in boxes and baskets on the shelves. Organization is my friend ;-)