Abstract: A garment hanger has at least a pair of arms on either side of the central stem. Each arm of each pair extends outwardly from a hinge connection with the stem. The hinges of each pair are disposed vertically spaced and at their opposite ends the arms are hingedly attached at spaced points to a garment retaining member. Each upper arm is hinged at a point intermediate of the two end hinge mountings to move outwardly away from the other arm on compression of the ends towards each other and resilient biassing means such as springs in the arms are provided on at least the upper arm to bias the ends of the hanger outwardly. The construction of this hanger becomes the known radial movement of the arms which tend to tilt the garment retaining member at an angle to the original vertical angle resulting in considerable pressure to effect movement of the arms. The hanger of this invention ensures that the garment retaining member remains in a desirable direction.