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Help - how do you store your scarves?

(58 Posts)
petitpois Wed 21-Oct-15 09:14:31

Admittedly I do have a bit of a scarf obsession - around 20? But I've got to the stage now where they're all bunched up in the top of my wardrobe. Or hidden under my coats in the entrance hall. So, I need some ideas on the best way of storing them - to minimise bunching so I can actually see what I've got. What do you do? Please tell me I'm not alone! grin

Indinana Wed 21-Oct-15 09:30:41

Only 20? grin. I have a large drawer purely for my scarf collection, which isn't ideal because they can get crumpled. The majority of my scarves, though, do not crease and can stand up to all sorts of abuse, but I do have 2 or 3 that I have to iron every time I want to wear them. These are scarves that have been bought for me as presents (clearly by people who don't understand scarves grin)

whitewave Wed 21-Oct-15 09:32:31

I have a little glove cabinet in the hall and except for the big wintery ones they are all in there.

petitpois Wed 21-Oct-15 09:48:05

Tbh Indinana it's probably more but I'm too embarrassed to count! grin I've looked at these Lakeland hangers but I think the scarves are going to get all bunched up and take up a large wodge of hanging space.

Devorgilla Wed 21-Oct-15 09:52:13

I bought a scarf hanger. It works up to a point but they are quite bulky when all the scarves are on it. Trouble is I only ever use about four of them and really should steel myself to give the rest to charity.

Katek Wed 21-Oct-15 09:52:29

I have one of the scarf hangers-it actually doesn't take up too much space in the wardrobe if you use it for thinner/finer scarves. My chunky ones I keep in a box on hall cupboard shelf.

Tegan Wed 21-Oct-15 09:56:57

I hang some on clothes hangers in the wardrobe; have some coat hooks behind the door in the bedroom where my handbags go so some scarves join them. The rest are hanging with my coats and hats in the hall. Anything cashmere goes in a box so the moths can't get them. I own far too many and probably [as with clothes] only actually wear about 1% of them, but I think they look nice in the hall.

Lona Wed 21-Oct-15 09:57:00

Mine (lots) are neatly folded and stacked on a shelf, in the corner cupboard at the end of my fitted wardrobe. I love them and have about three different YouTube videos of ways to wear them!

TerriBull Wed 21-Oct-15 10:05:52

I love scarves and have quite a few, I have a large cotton bag supplied when I bought a posh handbag a few years ago, they are folded and stacked in there.

Alea Wed 21-Oct-15 10:11:06

Oh crumbs, sort of folded flattish and then stuffed into various drawers which are then forced shut shock Fortunately they sort of press themselves in the squash.

Ana Wed 21-Oct-15 10:14:33

Mine are all hung and draped about like Tegan's, mainly on the coathooks in the hall. If they were out of sight in a bag or in a drawer I'd forget about them and never wear them!

NfkDumpling Wed 21-Oct-15 10:22:07

I have a hanger in the wardrobe similar to the Lakeland one, but from Kleeneze and shaped like a holey butterfly. That sorts most of the thin ones and the bigger ones have their own (large) drawer, folded in two lengthwise and rolled. Very organised! [smug]
(This only happened a week or two back when they became totally out of control and several vanished down the back of the drawer so I couldn't close it!)

Tegan Wed 21-Oct-15 10:37:33

No matter how many I own [and don't wear] I'm still tempted to buy more whenever I go out shock even though I, too sometimes find scarves I'd forgotten about.

Pittcity Wed 21-Oct-15 10:42:29

We have a spare wardrobe where we hang out of season coats so my scarves are hung around the necks of these. I still just grab the same one that I have hung in the hall though.

kittylester Wed 21-Oct-15 10:47:27

Wow, never thought of rolling them Nfk. What a brilliant idea. My decorative ones have a drawer in my chest in the bedroom all to themselves and inevitably they get crumpled because the one I want is always at the bottom and I am inevitably in a flipping hurry!

Scarves for warmth are in a chest of drawers in the hall!

Alea Wed 21-Oct-15 10:51:47

Don't you just hate it when the scarves get out of control and run amok nfkdumpling ? My pants, socks and tights tend to misbehave in the same way!grin

Pittcity Wed 21-Oct-15 10:57:28

This forum has seen me tidy up my linen cupboard, underwear drawers and now scarves in the last week or so, whatever nrxt?

Stansgran Wed 21-Oct-15 10:58:37

I use men's trouser hangers for the pashmina types and coats are on hangers with the scarf or scarves that I wear with that coat. I have a bad scarf habit but I made a decision only to buy hand rolled edges on silk scarves and width of the loom wool ones. Is there an emoticon for a very expensive habit? But it stops too much buying.

Coolgran65 Wed 21-Oct-15 11:02:05

In two large seagrass boxes on top of a wardrobe that I can reach. Dozens of them...big scarves, pashmina, most from charity shops. I wear a scarf all the time including indoors, feel naked without scarf and earrings.

Nonnie Wed 21-Oct-15 11:26:33

I bought a pretty scarf hanger for a friend and have recently seen a much bigger one in Ikea. I think I would need several and then of course I would need more wardrobe space.............

shysal Wed 21-Oct-15 11:51:53

Scarves just don't suit me, and I hate to be warm around the neck. Therefore any I am given are stuffed into a drawer under my bed and never see the light of day!

glassortwo Wed 21-Oct-15 13:21:11

I just use wooden hangers with the rail on the bottom. I make a loop and thread through around the rail, dont take much room and easy to see which one I am looking for.

stillhere Wed 21-Oct-15 13:31:59

I have a sort of hanging round ring, I think it was meant for men's belts, where you would poke one end of the ring where it fastens through the buckle and then twist it around to the belt you need in order to unfasten it. I have a few of those.

I've googled and googled but can't find an image anywhere.

All the ones that crease easily go into a drawer, folded.

rosesarered Wed 21-Oct-15 13:53:27

I am the same as kitty warm Winter ones folded flat in a chest, in the hall
Along with hats and gloves. A whole drawer for them in the bedroom, for the silky ones ,folded flat, seems to work.

mollie Wed 21-Oct-15 14:20:25

Mine are either folded in my undies drawer, stuffed in a beautifully decorated tote (made my a young relative) hanging on the door of my wardrobe or hooked under coats in the hall.