You can often hear from housewives complaining that a thing bought in an expensive store has lost its appearance just as quickly as clothes purchased on the market. The reasons can be very different, but first of all, you should think about whether you take care of your clothes correctly, follow the instructions on the labels, can you correctly decipher the designation of the badges on the clothes?
In fact, the information on the labels of your new blouse or trousers can tell you in sufficient detail whether and how to properly wash and dry, clean and iron a new thing. On such a label with recommendations, the manufacturer, as a rule, indicates what material the product is made of, the percentage of raw materials and some symbols. On clothes, you can find both quite visual and obscure icons, so it is advisable for a modern housewife to have at home a special memo of symbols with explanations of how to properly care for the wardrobe in order to maintain the quality and impeccable appearance of each item. Of course, certain, frequently occurring charactersyou can remember, but the rest sometimes you don’t even know how to decipher, not to mention how to keep them in memory. Let's try to understand the markings and understand the basic designations on clothes.
Designations for washing products
You can find out how and at what temperature a thing should be washed by the way in which a schematic basin of water is shown on the label.
So, if such an image is present, and it is not crossed out, therefore, washing is permissible, otherwise the product should be cleaned in other ways. The figure in the figure will indicate what temperature the manufacturer recommends using water, sometimes the numbers are replaced by dots. One point corresponds to 30 degrees, two to 40, three to 60, and so on. The designation on the clothes in the form of a hand lowered into the water will indicate the need for hand washing. An important detail for all garment care symbols is the presence of one or two horizontal lines below the pattern. One warns of a gentle way to carry out this operation, and two of a delicate one.
Dry cleaning and bleaching
Designs on clothes in the form of a circle will tell you about the conditions of dry cleaning. An empty circle on the label recommends dry cleaning, a crossed out circle prohibits the use of any chemicals. If the circle contains the letters A, P, F inside, you should pay attention to the solvents that will be used. A - dry cleaning is possible using any solvent. R -dry cleaning with solvents such as ethylene chloride, monofluorotrichloromethane, hydrocarbons is possible. F - dry cleaning with triflotrichloromethane and hydrocarbon.
The white triangle allows bleaching, the black one prohibits. The presence of the letters CL in it allows the use of chlorine. If these letters are crossed out, or there are oblique stripes in the triangle, then the bleaches used should not contain chlorine.
Drying
Empty square allows drying. The presence of a circle in the square indicates the admissibility of spinning. The indicated temperature will show the optimal drying mode. By the arrangement of the stripes inside the square, it is enough to simply guess how to dry the product: on a rope, horizontally, vertically without wringing or in the shade.
Ironing
Schematic iron will tell the housewife how to properly iron clothes. First of all, this, of course, is the temperature regime, and secondly, the possibility of steaming.
This is for the basic symbols, but there are many more specific icons. If you want to wear your favorite item for longer, carefully review all the designations on the clothes, find out what she likes and what will ruin her forever. To do this, you need to always have a cheat sheet at your fingertips.
