Clothes valet

{{Short description|Furniture to hang clothes on}} {{Multiple issues| {{Globalize|article|USA|2name=the United States|date=December 2010}} {{one source|date=November 2025}} {{Notability|1=Products|date=May 2025}} }} thumb|upright|Gentleman's oak valet

'''Clothes valet''', also called '''men's valet''', '''valet stand''' and '''suit stand''', is a piece of furniture to hang clothes on. Clothes are hung that are worn multiple times before laundering, such as a men's suit. Typical features of valets include trouser hangers, jacket hangers, shoe bars, and a tray organizer for miscellaneous, day-to-day objects like wallets and keys. Some also feature jewelry boxes.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tBylCGtiDqkC&pg=PA99&dq=%22Clothes+valet%22+-wikipedia&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=|page=99|title=Ergonomic Living: How to Create a User-Friendly Home & Officer|first=Gordon |last=Inkeles |year=2010|isbn=9781439146323|access-date=5 November 2025}}</ref>

== Variants == An electric clothes valet is used to warm clothes before dressing; it includes a timer to prevent overheating.

Floor-standing clothes steamers can also have a fixed clothes hanger so that they can function as a combined clothes steamer and men's valet.

A valet rod is a pipe shaped clothes valet which protrudes from a cabinet or similar, and is used as a compact clothes valet.

== Gallery == <gallery> Detail of gentlemen's valet in walnut.jpg|A suit with accessories on a valet stand. Gentlemans-valet-1.jpg|Empty valet stand. Напольный отпариватель.jpg|Clothes steamer with an integrated clothes valet Whose Sleeves (Tagasode).jpg|{{nihongo3|lit. "rack"|架|Ka}}, a Japanese rack for clothing. Art from the Momoyama period (1573–1615). </gallery>

== See also == * Clothes hanger * Clotheshorse * Clothes steamer * Coat rack * Dress code

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