Storing gloves and ties

lkranieri

lkranieri

VFG Member
I had a phone call yesterday from Gaylord Brothers:

http://www.gaylordmart.com/lobby_gaylordmart.asp?

about a feature on the long (archival) garment bags I have purchased from them in the past, for our museum and to protect my own collection of vintage clothing. They are considering marketing archival boxes for gloves/ties and asked for my opinion about that. I hated to tell her that I keep most of my vintage and antique gloves in a Victorian woodburned box that the woodburner labled "Gloves." I do have a protective barrier of Mylar between the gloves and the harmful wood, but it is not really a good place to store them long term.

I said most of the VFG members and friends seem to be vintage clothing dealers and thus are less likely to need archival storage for clothing items, but I said I would ask here what you store those things in if you have some in your own collection. I will report to her what you use and/or what you think of their idea of having small archival boxes just for those things.

Thanks.
Lynne
 
Most collectors and museums I know don't actively collect ties or gloves. They may have a display box for exhibition purposes but actual samples for a collection are few. My glove collection has every colour length and material I can get my hands on but they are for using on mannequins. My actual artifact gloves - examples I would exhibit number less than thirty pairs and I keep them in a shoe box. They may be overthinking what they need to offer.
 
the idea is divine; i find that typically that sort of stuff gets to be out of my budget, tho

plus, i like to SEE what i have, so i keep my tie collection over an old wood hanger with a (contemporary) pants protector on it; my gloves are in ziplock bags in a drawer.

my pyrography box is too small for my glove collection, now. i guess that's good ;)
 
wow, that's a great company--I'm keeping them bookmarked...

I might be in the minority here, but I find storing the hundreds of vintage ties I have (and adore more with each passing year, so that I realize I've morphed into collecting as well as dealing in them...) very challenging to say the least.

Because they're all different widths and lengths, I've never never run across a box that lends itself well to storing them flat, in a way that won't result in unintentional/awkwardly placed folds after a while. The apparel boxes I use to ship them in, which are a good fit, are too shallow to fit more than one or two ties.

I usually hang them, like Mary on a pants hanger, or on a series of tie racks (those hanger trees you get at linen stores) mounted on a wall in my storage closet. That solution really doesn't scale up well--gets very confusing as well as precarious for keeping the ties unwrinkled.

If Gaylord cut something like one of the long skinny deep lid archival boxes that comes in 4, 6, and 8" depths short and narrow (the tie and glove apparel boxes I use measure 5 1/2" wide x 11 1/2" long), I know I'd buy several in a flash!

But I'd be only one customer...
 
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