The coat hanger was invented by a worker named Albert Parker House. At that time, he was a blacksmith who made lampshades in a small wire handicraft company in Michigan. One day, he was angry to find that all the clothes hooks in the factory's cloakroom had been occupied. He angrily took out a piece of lead wire, bent it into the shape of the shoulder of the coat added hooks on it. This invention is owned patented by his boss, which is the origin of hanger.

Clothes rack is a kind of furniture that appeared earlier in China. The Zhou Dynasty began to implement the etiquette system, the aristocracy attached great importance to the clothes crown. In order to meet this need, the shelves specially used to hang clothes appeared earlier. The clothes hangers in different dynasties have different forms names. In the spring Autumn period, the wooden pole used for hanging clothes was called "truss", also called "wooden construction".

In the Song Dynasty, the use of hanger is more common than that of the previous generation, there are image materials. The hanger in the mural dressing picture of song tomb in Yu County, Henan Province, is supported by two columns a crossbar. The two ends of the crossbar grow out of the columns, the two ends are slightly upwarped, made into flowers. Two horizontal wooden piers are used at the lower part to stabilize the column, another one is added between the two columns at the lower part of the upper horizontal bar to reinforce the column.

The overall shape of hanger in Ming Dynasty still keeps the traditional pattern, but the materials, production decoration are particularly refined. The lower end of the coat hanger is made of two wooden piers with embossed lines inside outside. The piers are planted with columns, the front back two carved curly grass flowers stand against the clamps. The upper part the lower part of the stand tooth are connected with the column the pedestal pier by tenon, the two piers are installed with lattice which are stored with small pieces of wood. Because the lattice has a certain width, shoes other things can be placed. At the lower side of the joint between each cross member the column, there are carved knuckles zigzag flower tooth supports. Hanger the selection of materials, design, sculpture production, in the Ming Dynasty have reached a very high level of art.

Clothes hangers in Ming Qing Dynasties are elegant in shape, exquisite in decoration, meticulous in carving bright in paint. In Ming Qing Dynasties, officials wore black silk red tassels, long robes with horseshoe sleeves pan necked collars with fillings before after. Therefore, the clothes hangers in Qing Dynasty were tall, with crossbars on the stand teeth columns, two ends protruding, carved with ornaments. The clothes robes were put on the crossbars, which were called Longmen frames. In the Qing Dynasty, the policy of "easy to wear" was carried out. The clothes were full of people's clothes, full of people's spirit, strong tall. The clothes they wore were large in size heavy in weight. The clothes of rich influential people are made up of silk satin with flowers Phoenix embroidered on them. Therefore, the prosperity, modesty greatness of clothes hangers in Qing Dynasty are the characteristics of this period the differences between other times.

In the Qing Dynasty, clothes racks were also known as "court clothes racks", which were mainly used to hang men's official clothes. Therefore, all the main beams of clothes racks were like two dragons lying on their backs, proudly lying there, symbolizing the prosperity of officials. The rest, such as "Fu", "Lu", "Shou" various decorative decorations, further emphasized their values.

The clothes rack in ancient times has a new evolution development in modern times. The combination of traditional styles modern practical functions has produced new household products with unique charm.