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One making alterations ignoring first location for clothes? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hanger

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'clothes?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'one making alterations ignoring first location' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'one' could be 'an' (an apple is one apple) and 'an' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'for' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for hanger that I've seen before include "A large shed for an aircraft" , "suspender" , "Wardrobe item" , "Support in wardrobe" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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