There is disclosed an extensible clothes-hanging device which comprises a housing containing therein a number of wound-up clothes lines, spring action being used for winding-up such clothes lines. The respective outer free ends of the clothes lines are retained in a ledge or bracket member, and with the aid of such, all of the clothes lines can be conjointly or simultaneously drawn out or extended from the housing. At least one of the clothes lines can be withdrawn without using the ledge or bracket member, and such last-mentioned clothes line is subjected to the action of an independent return spring.