When I picked up my dry cleaning today, I was once again annoyed at the fact that the hangers were backwards. I've always learned to hang my clothes from the hanger with the hook opening to the left, so that when hung from the rod the from will face to the left. However, when I complained to the lady, she simply said that I was wrong. My mom even told me that I was wrong. Apparently they both think that the hook opening goes to the right.

I never really noticed how my mom used to hang my clothes when I was younger. It wasn't until after the Army that I began hanging my clothes the way I do. Even the dry cleaners I used would hang the clothes in the fashion that I do. Now, I have to ask. What is the right way to hang clothes from a hanger? There doesn't seem to be an answer online. So is the entire US Army and my drill instructor wrong? Or, is my mom and my current dry cleaners wrong?

Tell me, how do you like your clothes hung from a hanger, with the hook open to the left so that the front faces to the left, or with the hook open to the right so that the front faces the right?