Multiple expansion luggage item

An item of expandable luggage, comprising:

• a frame having a first, substantially rigid, rear component and a second, substantially rigid, front component, each of which components includes a pair of opposite peripheral wall panels that together with another pair of opposite peripheral wall members form the peripheral boundary of a variable main compartment enclosure and a generally rectangular area;
• a peripherally continuous first gusset of flexible material coupled between the peripheral wall panels and the peripheral wall members of the two frame components in the front to rear direction, the adjacent ends of the first and second frame components carrying mating halves of a peripherally continuous, first zipper, which, when undone, permits the first gusset to unfold in the forward direction to enlarge the main compartment enclosure;
• a front panel of flexible material covering the end of the second frame component;
• a second zipper extending around at least three sides of the second frame component and the front panel for releasably coupling the front panel to the second frame component, to permit access to the main compartment of the luggage item;
• at least one external front pocket carried by the flexible front panel, said at least one front pocket comprising along the bottom and substantially the full length of both sides thereof a second gusset of flexible material, the top of the front pocket being non-expandably attached to the front panel;
• the edges of the front pocket adjoining the second gusset carrying mating halves of a third zipper which, when undone, permits the second gusset to unfold in the forward direction to enlarge the volume enclosed by the at least one front pocket;
• a pair of internal tie-down panels respectively coupled at one end thereof to the interior sides of the pair of opposite peripheral wall members of the second frame component;
• each of the internal tie-down panels extending over at least one-half of the distance between the pair of opposite peripheral wall panels of the second frame component and over at least one-quarter of the distance between the pair of opposite peripheral wall members of the second frame component;
• cooperating tie-down elements carried by the respective tie-down panels at the ends thereof remote from the opposite peripheral wall members of the second frame component for releasably connecting the pair of tie-down panels to one another;
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• a clothes hanger bracket mounted on the rear side of the front panel, said clothes hanger bracket including:
• a base member secured to the front panel;
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• at least one hook member extending in a first portion generally perpendicularly to the base member, then curving to extend in a second portion along, but spaced from the base member, and terminating in a free end spaced form the base member.