Abstract: A hanger designed to frustrate potential shoplifters by clamping a portion of the garment suspended thereon to the hanger and requiring a series of unlocking movements to free the garment therefrom, the hanger consisting of a customary inverted V-shaped yoke having hollow arm members converging together at the top to be secured to a suspension hook, the suspension hook being associated with rigid locking rods extending through the hollow arms and terminating adjacent the shoulder portions of the yoke for cooperation with a clamping linkage and which locks the clamping linkage in a closed clamping position when the suspension hook lies in the plane of the yoke, rotation of the hook 90.degree. unlocking the clamping mechanism to permit opening thereof to release a garment from the hanger.