Evening star., 1936-02-02

device tried to buy one but have never been
able to find it, With this, and the closet door
carried to the ceiling every closet could have
between three and four feet of shelf and
drawer space below womans dresses and
much more than that in mans.
In mans closet there is always room under
his suits for number of trays or shelves for
shirts, shoes and underclothes. Long hanging
space at one side of the shelves or trays
should be left for tail coat and dressing gowns
possibly ulsters if the coat closet in the hall
is limited When the closet to be fitted is deep
enough to walk into it. its possibilities are
endless. Returning, however, to the narrow
closet, don't forget to utilize the back of the
door. Bathroom towel bars are perfect for a
mans ties.
Shoe bags are not bad for bedroom slippers,
pumps and sneakers. but for shoes the shelves
already suggested. built just the width of the
soles of his own shoes. with elastic fences at
the edges to keep shoes from falling sideways
when the door is opened or shut. are very
practical. Moreover. the elastic { q in cotton,
or silk will not mar the shoes As a matter of
fact, shoe racks for man are easily contrived
to fit in almost any odd space, and easier still
for woman's high heels which will let the
shoes hang at almost any angle
To avoid piling things on top of each other,
racks of shelves to stand on shelves are excel
lent. But to try to overcome some of the
handicaps of a too small hanging space such,
for instance, as closet fifteen inches deep by
three feet wide: A practical suggestion is a
clothes hanging unit from a manufacturer of
wardrobe trunks Whether you get the kind
that has hangers made to be fastened at one
side, and which swing open like the pages of a
book, or whether you choose unit that is
fastened in the center of an overhead shelf
and pulls forward, depends upon whether the
closet door CenteIs on the closet space or
whether it is flush with the wall on one side.
The side unit will leave about fourteen
closet to be utilized by shelf space for shoes
and hats. The center unit would leave enough
space at one side for slanting shoe rack, and
on the other for few ordinary hooks If you
chose the hangers made for wardrobe trunks,
upon whichlong dresses fold over, there should
be plenty of space for two units, one above
the other, and the remaining space could be
divided into shelves for shoes and hats
About the simplest way to build closet
in rented house or apartment is to build
wooden cupboard painted to match the trim
OF the room, just skeleton front and one or
two sides and top, leaving the wall and floor
OF the room as back and bottom. Its size
would, of course, depend upon that necessary
for its utility and also upon the space available
IN the room. For a hanging closet. remember
that % inches must be allowed for hanger
IN whichever direction it is to be hung. A
closet three feet nine inches long BY ten
inches deep (outside measWes) would hold
two sets of hangers shoulder to shoulder on
pull-forward wardrobe-trunk rods, with
shelves above or below. Every additional
22 inches would mean another clothes rod.
One last word: closets are not the only con-
tainers that ought to be fitted with whatever
you yourself can devise to add to the con-
venience and utility of the space Over deep
highboy or bureau drawers can, for instance,
be given the convenience of two and even
three drawers by being fitted with shallow
trunk trays fitted exactly as in trunk. To fit
tray whose edges come almost level with
those of the drawer, pegs must be fitted at the
back of the drawer so that it can be pulled
almost out and yet be in no danger of
coming completely out.
A pet device of my own (Which was, of
course, copied from the beds on yachts) is
that of building drawers under all beds in