the wire hangers
Now, I don't want to victim-blame, but if Joan didn't want wire hangers, why were there any in the house to begin with?
The clothes came from the dry cleaners' on wire hangers. Christina and her siblings were supposed to take their lovely dressed off of the horrible cheap wire hangers, and hang them neatly on the fancy padded hangers that Joan provided.
I've heard that Joan hated wire hangers because she either worked in a dry cleaners' when she was young, or she'd had a few abortions involving them.