Kinda OT here-where do you keep/organize all the princess dresses in your house?

[redjulie]

I figured that a lot of you on this board would have girls that love to dress up!

We just added another dress from our last trip to my daughter's wardrobe and I feel like I am being overtaken by tiara's and tulle! Do you keep them in a large box or hang them up?

Thanks!

 

[jolynda]

my daughter has a dress-up box (one of those plastic storage containers decorated liberally with stickers). It is filled with princess dresses, a tutu or two, lots of beads and fun sunglasses, crowns, hats, and old halloween costumes. There's even a homemade princess Leia costume! When she has friends over, they love to play dress up! When they are done, they stuff it all back in the box and the room is clean again! We tried hanging up the princess dresses, but in the closet, the things weren't as accessible to the girls, and they never seemed to get back on the hangars.

 

[alvernon90]

I keep mine in a closet in my office so my wife doesn't know that I wear them when she is not around.

Just kidding. Really, I'm just kidding.

 

[Brady's Mom]

I keep mine in a closet in my office so my wife doesn't know that I wear them when she is not around.

Just kidding. Really, I'm just kidding.

LOL!
I sort of had to about this topic since I have 4 boys and have never once (no really) had a princess dress in my house, let alone a tiara or tulle. I didn't even like dress-up that much when I was a little kid - too much of a tom-boy. No wonder I like boys!!

 

[rainwatter]

We keep ours in a canvas box from ikea that looks like a treasure chest. It was about $10 and is great for stuffing everything into.

 

[redjulie]

I keep mine in a closet in my office so my wife doesn't know that I wear them when she is not around.

Just kidding. Really, I'm just kidding.

OMG! That is too funny! I'm visualizing some big guy in a princess dress!




Thanks for your responses, looks like some kind of big box would be the easiest.

 

[beezcow]

My DD doesn't like her dresses all crushed and wrinkled so they hang in her closet.

 

[tripletlyblessed]

i was thinking about this the other day and am pretty sure that I'm going to move a bookcase so that I can hang a rod between two of them (they are side-by-side right now) and use hangers. We also have tutus and some shirts to hang. I like the plastic bin for the rest of it, though.

 

[PHXscuba]

I hang them neatly in the closet; they (DD9 and DD6) wear them and throw them in the bottomless dress-up bin. They don't seem to suffer. I'm the kind of mom who doesn't let her kids wear them outside the house (unless it's for Halloween) so I don't really care if they are wrinkly.

PHXscuba

 

[ylatan]

lolz.

we just have a giant basket of dress up stuff.

 

[Carrie in AZ]

Bought a wardrobe from IKEA for this very purpose!!

 

[charmama4]

My DH took a 2X4 and some pegs and made a rack for all of our DD dress up things. It keeps things off the floor.

 

[alexandria674]

My sister hates the dresses to be wrinkled, she said " The real princesses dresses are smooth" so instead of giving a snarky comment about " well, the princesses don't deal with a hot iron all day" I got an old luggage box and set a bar in it so she can hang her own dresses with tiny hangers. I also fitted carboard wrapped in an old pink shawl so she can put her princess shoes there. We looked up some of the princesses pictures and I got an old plastic mirror and fixed it with rhinestones. Now, she has no problem picking up the dresses. When we lock the box (it always stands upright) she gets her "wand" (a pencil with ribbons) and says "sprrrring" and I close the lock and say" Look, it's magic!"

 

[50sjayne]

--no princess dresses here.

 

[mom2twokids]

We bought a bookcase from Ikea and the doors that go with it. I set up a tension shower curtain rod and hang the dresses from that. The shoes go under the bookcase (there is about 2" of space) and tiaras and wands go on top. I decorated the doors with some vinyls hearts, tiaras and other girly things.
It works out perfect for us.

 

[DisneyloverinWA]

We have a shelf on the wall that has pegs below the shelf that she hangs her dresses on. It was a better option than the closet because we could hang the shelf at a height that allows her to reach her dresses when she wants to play dress up. The closet rod is too high for her right now, since sh is only 4 1/2.