Abstract: A shoulder guard for placement on a garment hanger so as to lie between the garment hanger and a garment to be hung on the garment hanger includes a sheet manufactured, assembled and folded at the manufacturing site into a flat, collapsed condition and readily unfolded in the field into an erected condition for placement on the garment hanger, without the necessity for any additional assembly operation, to provide an appropriate and improved contour for the support of the garment on the garment hanger, the sheet including first and second legs folded into a generally deep V-shaped configuration, where the legs make an acute angle to one another in a flattened collapsed condition, and unfolded into an erected condition where the legs form a relatively shallow V-shaped configuration in which the legs make an obtuse angle to one another, are aligned longitudinally in the same plane for placement over the garment hanger, and are contoured to provide the appropriate support for the garment.