Completely daft question, but please indulge me, I need to know how long children use children's clothes hangers for.

[franke]

When do they change to the bigger grown-up ones? I really have no idea but I need to know because it will determine which wardrobe I buy for them.

I don't use them at all really. I tend to fold small clothes and just use a chest of drawers, so only really start hanging things up when they are bigger (around 7 or so) when big hangers are fine. Maybe a dress or two before then, but hardly anything and not worth using a small wardrobe for

also for boys I find there is nothing much TO hang up. Ever! All foldable

Until the clothes fall off them I should think .

Buy the bigger one - save time and money later.

We're still on kids hangers for DS2 9, as they are the only ones that fit in his wardrobe - will move to big ones next year, when he moves bedroom, but they are such nice hangers, I'll miss them

Hanging children's clothes? Does not compute

DS (4) doesn't have anything hung up. DD (2.2) has some dresses hung up, with small hangers.

Don't buy a special wardrobe for children, buy a normal one and put in your own shelves/baskets etc such as Elfa.

I hang at least half of my daughter's clothes on a gorgeous wooden white painted rail (with matching hangers) I got at a lovely children's furniture shop (Baudou) in Paris for the princely sum of 90 euros. It will last her a good while yet and when she grows out of it I will buy her a proper grown-up wardrobe.

DD (9) still using children's hangers because she is quite small still. Probably DS moved around 10/11 because he is quite tall and broad

Thanks for the replies everyone.

I guess I'm a hanger rather than a folder - clothes get put straight onto hangers when they come out of the washing machine, dry on a rail then straight up to the hanging rail in the dc's bedroom. Ironing? Wossat then?

I use the hangers that come with the clothes and hang up all dd's (4) and ds's (1) tops so they dont crease (I also dont iron much).