Storing Chaps/Chinks

[Deacon Doug]

Suggestions on ways to store chaps/chinks besides folding up and putting on a shelf? I’m not only looking for the correct way, but also an efficient way. If you need to do something different for Woolies, that advice will be appreciated too. Thanks in advance.

 

Deacon Doug

[Sedalia Dave]

I always hung like a pair of pants. It does require a heavy duty hanger.

[Ol Salty Sailor]

When I want to pack my chaps for my Harley, I roll them.  Here is an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SaChxwbXDA

The process may need to be adapted for your cowboy chaps but it is a starting point.

Edited November 19, 2025 by Ol Salty Sailor

[Equanimous Phil]

+1 for hanging at home

+1 for rolling when packing in a suitcase

[Black Hills Barb]

I have an over the door coat rack and hang them by the belt over the hooks.

[Jiminy Cricket]

I fold mine like a pair of jeans and put them on a shelf.  I don't know about woolies, never had a pair of those.

[Flanigan Flats]

I have an old fashion cast iron coat hook that I hang them on

[watab kid]

i never thought to ask this but appreciate the thread , ive been folding mine and putting them in my leather bag with holster rigs and boots and suspenders and duster - thats how they travel and get stored , might have to rethink this 

[Griff]

Kinda depends on what type chaps you have.  I have a pair of shotgun chaps and hang them folded over a wooden dowel about the diameter of a closet rod (1" - 1-¼" ) to keep them from developing a kink where they hang.  My chinks (which I only use riding), are rolled up and re-rolled in the opposite direction every once in a while to keep from them from developing a "set".  (Rolled from the waist down so the "set" at the bottom doesn't end up in a permanent curl).  Never had "woolies" so I don't know how I'd store them... maybe from the belt with a "clamp" style pants hanger.

[WOODFOX , sass#34179]

I hang them from the back belt on a hook 

[Dantankerous]

For years now I just fold them and shelves them. 

[watab kid]

im going to get mine out and check for crease/set marks , i think ill roll them as mentioned above from the belt down