Wardrobe Designs Have Undergone Some Changes

You have to have attained a “certain age” to remember when wardrobes  were the only tasteful solution for storing clothing. If you are at least as old as me, you remember them as where your dresses, slacks and shirts hung, and the sweet smell of cedar used to keep the moths at bay. Like most things in the world, wardrobe designs have undergone quite a few changes since then.

Today’s modern wardrobe can still hold clothes, or it can hold your television with DVD and other accessories. It could hold your “special clothes” like a wedding dress or tux, or it could hold your desktop computer and all of its accessories. There are wardrobes for holding, of all things, jewelry. Of course, most of us probably don’t have enough of the sparkly stuff to fill one of those. While most of them are still done in wood, you won’t find very many with the fine hand carving and intricate workmanship of their Victorian heyday. What they do have, however, might more than make up for anything they lack.

Today’s wardrobe designs feature things we didn’t dream about having in our old-fashioned ones. Power outlets with built-in surge suppression can be part of that design. Some have lots of specialized compartments. Small drawers can be used to hold DVDs or some of those almost-vintage VHS tapes. There are swing-outs that prop up with a hinged leg to create a table and some that have foldout beds that tuck back in and when the doors are closed, no one is the wiser.

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Of course, you can still find old-fashioned wardrobes like the ones I grew up with in antique stores. They are beautiful and, occasionally useful. Still, if you are looking to make modern use of one, why not choose a newer one that was designed just for your purposes?