NO MORE WIRE HANGERS

No doubt about it, wire hangers tangle and make our closets look disheveled. But what to do about those pesky wire coat hangers that come back with the dry-cleaning? Painstakingly remove them one by one and replace them with your own wooden or fabric ones? Then what do you do with the gnarled pile that ensues?

We have a solution. More and more drycleaners will put your clothes on your own hangers for you, believe it or not. Bibbentuckers at Lemmon and McKinney Avenues (214.219.5400), provides this service for free, they told us. Avon cleaners on Lovers Lane (214.521.4803) provides the service for .25-.50 cents per hanger. Call your favorite drycleaner and ask.

Joan Crawford would have approved.