A storage system, comprising a body having a cavity therein configured to house one or more items, and an opening defined by the body and a panel configured to mate with the opening and prevent access to the cavity when the panel is in position; the system have a first level of security securing items stored in the cavity; a second level of security securing the body from a structure from which it is hung, and an third level of security disguising the storage system as a hanging piece of clothing.

A variable size marker or sizer for garment hangers is disclosed. A gear-shaped wheel with cogs has various size indicia on each cog, and is inserted into a hanger to display the correct size indicia. The hanger has tabs to retain the sizer in place by mating with slits in the sizer. For example, if a displayed garment is size large, the user chooses the cog with L facing upwardly, and inserts the sizer into the hanger through the bottom of the hanger until the hanger's tabs click into the sizer's slits corresponding with the L. The L is then visible at the top of the hanger. The hanger is made of resilient material to flex outwardly to allow the sizer to be inserted and removed, yet hold the sizer in place when the hanger is in use.

A clothes supporting apparatus is provided having a shaping member defining a flexible periphery for supporting an item of clothing. An adjustable mechanism is provided for selectively decreasing a transverse extent of the periphery, wherein the adjustable mechanism extends between joints on opposing portions of the periphery and causes the opposing portions of the periphery to flex towards each other when the adjustable mechanism is operated. The shaping member is elastically deformable causing the opposing portions of the periphery to return to an unflexed position when the adjustable mechanism is released.

A storage system for holding garments and other items is provided. The storage system can include a storage unit and at least one hanger. The hanger can be inserted into a hanger pocket provided on the sidewall of the storage unit and used to hang the storage system from a hanging rod. The storage unit includes one or more compartments defined by sidewall panels and an overlapping panel connected to and overlapping part of one of the sidewall panels. The sidewall panel and the overlapping panel can form the hanger pocket with a lower opening and an upper opening. The lower opening is sized to allow the hanger to be inserted into the pocket. The upper opening is sized to allow the hook of the hanger to extend from the pocket. When the hanger is inserted into the pocket, the storage system can be hung from a storage rod.

A mannequin pose control computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product, includes reading clothing data of an article of clothing on a mannequin, determining a pose for the mannequin by associating the clothing data with a record in a database that includes the pose for the mannequin, and changing a current pose of the mannequin to match the pose for the mannequin based on the record in the database.

An accessory organizing system for organizing accessories in a plurality of pockets hanging from a clothes hanger includes a clothes hanger and a back wall that can hang from the clothes hanger via a strap. A plurality of pockets is positioned on the back wall for containing personal accessories including jewelry.

An accessory organizing system for organizing accessories in a plurality of pockets hanging from a clothes hanger includes a clothes hanger and a back wall that can hang from the clothes hanger via a strap. A plurality of pockets is positioned on the back wall for containing personal accessories including jewelry.

A garment hanger assembly (10) comprising a garment hanger (12) and an information element (14). The information element (14) slidably engages an element-receiving channel (34) of the garment hanger and is retained therein. A tool (16) is provided to apply and/or remove an information element from the hanger.

A communication system and a method of communication is disclosed. The system includes a receiver for receiving a signal from a transmitter that is associated with an item, and a processor arranged to infer based on parameters of the received signal a user's psychological state with respect to the associated item. The communication system include a display to display a corresponding image in dependence on the inferred psychological state.

A garment storage apparatus that comprises a hanger support frame and at least one hanger releasably resting on the hanger support frame; the hanger support frame comprising: an upper support, a lower support, a right support, a left support; with the upper support joining the top portion of the left and right supports and the lower support joining the bottom portions of the left and right supports; a first hanger hook on the left support and a corresponding first hanger hook on the right support, and a second hanger hook on the left support and a corresponding second hanger hook on the right support; the hanger comprising: a crown, and arms extending outwardly from the crown, with the crown having a horizontal length at least the same distance as the distance of the corresponding hanger hooks on the left and right supports so that the hanger can be removably placed on the corresponding hanger hooks.