NYTimes.com consults Dennis Basso, a fashion design who specializes in couture furs, in an article about coat hangers and the art of storage. Storing coats is clearly no laughing matter for Basso, whose own designs can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. And when you have a luxurious, beautiful coat like that, you don't hang it on any old drag coat hanger. He recommends, if you are storing coats for months at a time (during summer storage and whatnot) to put them on specialized coat hangers that maintain their shape and don't stretch, whether you have a multi-thousand dollar coat or a $200 one from Target. For the daily life of the coat though, in the throes of winter where you barely seem to take it off, Dennis Basso recommends the coat rack, which he considers superior to the ultimate sin, for him: throwing coats over the furniture.Basso's criteria for picking out a coat rac
