Open or closed?

Open or closed - that's the two incarnations of a curtain, plus the various stages in between.

So one night, while falling asleep, I thought: "Hang on, if I attach the shirts as intended and use coat hangers for hanging the shirtain, can it be opened at all?"

One side of the shirtain's top…

If you look at this image, you can see that the shoulders of the shirts are overlapping. So if I use regular coat hangers, the edges of the hangers come quite close together. So opening the shirtain might not be possible. At least not in the way one would expect from a curtain. This got me worried.

 

 

But it's fine, actually. As you can see in the images below, the shirtain opens and closes easily. At least with XL sized shirts. I assume that with smaller shirts, as in "S", it might not be possible. The problem can be solved by using modified or smaller coat hangers, or by using a different system. Since I'm using XL shirts, I don't care.

First tryouts Open Shirtain

First tryouts Closed Shirtain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually, I got the usual use of open/closed reversed! As a user of a curtain, open means "pulled aside" while closed means "covering the window". I just realised I'm thinking from the point of view of the curtain. Open meaning "spread out" and closed meaning "pulled together". Never mind, you see what I mean.