favorite way of storing clothes?

Mine are stuffed into boxes - different boxes according to size of doll, boxes for shoes, boxes for jewellery and accessories et. SInce I have over 50 BJD ADN house full of other types of doll (some of which can wear the same clothes) the accumulated boxes of clothes take up a lot of space in our spare bedroom

(the lower shelf the upper shelf is part of my fabric stash) plus some in a few other places when I ran out of space on this shelf.

I'd love to have them on little hangers and hanging rails but that would take up even more space and I'd never get around to putting things back onto hangers (it's hard enough to get aroudn to putting them bakc in the right boxes - i;m not an organised person).

Teddy

 

I don't have too many clothes but they are either being worn or are stored in an Ikea Expedit unit in a box with everything else BJD related that isn't currently displayed. Having decided to only purchase clothes made specifically for the dolls that will wear them, I'm not planning on accumulating many items. I would like to buy a few dresses for my Minifee girl and also get an open wardrobe for her display room.

 

Since I only have tinies, I keep the clothes organized by outfit in a three ring binder. Each outfit goes into an individual plastic sleeve that keeps the clothes nice and flat, and it saves a ton of headache from trying to find tiny clothes in a box.

 

I have the decorative storage boxes you find at craft stores for my yosds and my 1/8 size are stored in company doll boxes. Both types of boxes look nice randomly on shelves throughout the doll room. Right now I have them organized by size/type since I have ot dolls and the box with their clothes is usually near where they are displayed. Before I had a doll room, I had my dolls in the spare room and I kept the clothes in flat totes that fit under the bed. I also have a decorative shelf outside the doll room that has the big fabric cube bins and they hold doll boxes nicely.

 

I have a wooden medicine cabinet that I use as a wardrobe for all the casual clothes. There are four little drawers in which I store eyes, poster-tack, hair elastics, BJD jewelry, and other small stuff.

The shoes and wigs are stored in a box that doubles as a coffee table for my SDs.

The biggest clothes (Like one of my girls huge mourning gown) and fullset clothes are stored in the doll boxes.

 

Oh my…with a collection of nearly 50 BJDs, I store doll clothes wherever I can find a bit of space! My dolls are all on display throughout my home in little vignettes scattered artistically about, and I try my best to keep their clothing nearby. I’ve collected a few lovely outfits over the years, but I sew and have made tons more. Every doll has 3-5 outfits perfectly suited to their individual characters, so that’s a lot of clothes! Their display spaces are created from furniture found cheaply at charity shops, which I then refurbish to my tastes…and I always choose pieces that include built in storage below like drawers and shelves specifically for their clothing. For the open shelves, I put the outfits in pretty decorative boxes. For drawers, I place each individual outfit in a 1 gallon ziplock bag so it’s easy to see once I open the drawer.

 

We use under-bed storage bins here! I purposefully bought a bed with a two foot clearance under it to fit in more recently, haha.



Before that I had way too many of those craft store decorated boxes stashed around everywhere. This keeps the bulk contained in one place.

 

@Amet Lol it's honestly nice to see the visual for the 2 ft clearance holding the under bed boxes stacked double. This is something I think I will look into the next time I'm buying a bed frame.

I have always been a fan of storing my doll clothes in those plastic dresser drawers you can buy. It's not perfect but with the amount of clothes I end up having around here it works for me. I really like the ones now, actually not plastic, but same general idea, easy assembly/ pre assembled cheap furniture you can get at Walmart etc, anyway the ones that have a metal frame you build, wooden top, and fabric sided drawers because with a proper top of them you can also sit a bunch of your dolls on top for display!

 

I started out with a steamer trunk, but ran out of space pretty early on with that... It's holding the spare wigs these days.

For the clothes, I ended up buying a pair of smallish, 3-drawer chests of drawers that match the style and wood color of my display cabinets.

 

Haha, glad it’s useful! It was so satisfying to tuck it all away.

 

Wait a minute. @spacefallen that sounds absolutely genius! Not only does that sound like such a space-saver, but also really cute..! I have larger dolls, but I'm actually going to see if I can follow this idea and pack some of the smaller outfits like this.

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I started with shoe boxes in the closet, but as my collection grew so did their wardrobe. I bought an Ikea storage bed frame with 6 large drawers and so far I still have a lot of space left... Perhaps more if I start implementing the binder idea.

Interesting tidbit: My family thought I was crazy for buying a new bedframe for more storage space for the hobby. I thought it was a steal, considering I have a LOT more storage space for a price far cheaper than the Volks sofa for dolls... Oh the joys of relative value.

 

I have 2 of those plastic 3 drawers made by Sterilite. My smallest dolls clothes I was able to fold and put into old CD binders but maybe I should upgrade to a normal binder...but anyway 2 drawers are for my SD clothes, one drawer for my smalls clothes/accessories/furniture, one drawer for wigs, one drawer for MSD/YoSD sized clothes, and one drawer for everything else. The tops are always cluttered with whatever I haven't put away yet haha. I store the shoes with their respective sized clothing.

 

I like to use little plastic containers from the dollar store to separate outfits and accessories. Keep everything nice and clean

 

Truthfully, everything is just sorta shoved in repurposed Amazon boxes. It's a mess. I recently found a little wooden doll-sized armoire at the Goodwill, which I repainted and finished up. I had the intention of using it, even affixing a dowel rod inside and getting some tiny hangers, but I found that it's far more suited for yosd sized dolls. Most of my collection is 1/3 size

I'm still trying to figure out the best way to store clothes, but I feel like that can't happen until I find the right place to keep them... then find a container to fit.

 

I purchased an 8 cube storage system. the kind that you put the cloth-sided storage cubes in. I use 7 cloth cubes for the different sized dolls I own and one cube is used to display some tiny dolls and the top displays some of my dolls. I also have a 3 drawer plastic chest of drawers that has wigs in the bottom 2 drawers and eyes in the top one along with hair stuff. Shoes are kept in the appropriate cloth box with the clothing. I also have those little divided plastic containers you find for sorting art supplies to store extra hands and feet and sometimes shoes. I stash those on top of the clothing in the cloth boxes. For patterns, I have a notebook for each size doll and sleeves to put the patterns in with a picture of the completed product. The directions are stored on my computer. Fabric is currently in piles all over our ping pong table- its a work in progress