the.com/wardrobe trunk
a closet that learned to travel, before hotels remembered to add one
means A large upright traveling trunk that opens like a cabinet, with hanging space on one side and drawers on the other, so clothes arrive unpacked and ready to wear.
from From "wardrobe" + "trunk." "Wardrobe" comes through Old French garde-robe — literally "guard the robe," a room for keeping garments, from Germanic roots meaning "to watch over" and "clothing." "Trunk" traces to Latin truncus, "tree trunk," the hollowed log that became the chest. The combined term arose in the golden age of steamer travel, when a traveler wanted an entire closet to cross an ocean standing on its end.
- golden age
- Peak luxury aboard 1920s ocean liners and trains
- stands upright
- Opens vertically into hanging rods and drawers
- narnia note
- C.S. Lewis owned one inspiring the famous portal
- weight
- Often heavier empty than a packed suitcase full
- makers
- Louis Vuitton built bespoke ones for explorers
steamship trunks on titanic — first-class passengers stored multiple steamer trunks in hold; recovered trunks showed elaborate victorian clothing storage systems