To efficiently handle clothes to be stored in a box by managing the clothes not by the number but by the thickness of the clothes.

This clothes handling device has a position determining board 44 and a sensor 72 at the step part of feeder shoots 30 and 31. The position determining board 44 determines the position of hangers 2 to hang clothes 1 and the sensor 72 detects whether the front or the rear of the clothes 1, whose position has been determined by the position determining board 44, is within a prescribed width. The quantity of the clothes 1 fed by a clothes feeding means 10 is controlled based on the result of the detection of the sensor 72.