Often you can hear a complaint from housewives that a thing bought in an expensive store lost its appearance just as quickly as clothes purchased on the market. The reasons can be very different, but first of all it is worth thinking about whether you care for your clothes correctly, do you follow the instructions on the labels, can you correctly decipher the designation of the icons on the clothes?
In fact, the information on the labels of your new blouse or trousers can tell you in sufficient detail whether it is possible and how to wash and dry, clean and iron the 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 a special memo of symbols at home with explanations of how to properly care for a wardrobe in order to maintain the quality and impeccable appearance of each item. Of course, certain, often found characters can be remembered, but the rest sometimes you don’t even know how to decipher, not to mention keeping them in memory. Let's try to understand the labeling and understand the basic designations on clothes.
Designations for washing products
You can find out how and at what temperature the thing should be washed by the way in which the schematic basin with water is shown on the label.
So, if such an image is present, and it is not crossed out, therefore, washing is acceptable, 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 dipped in water will indicate the need for hand washing. An important detail for all designations regarding
clothing care is the presence of one or two horizontal lines under the figure. One warns of a gentle way to conduct this operation, and two of the delicate.
Dry cleaning and bleaching
The designations on the clothes in the form of a circle will tell about the dry cleaning conditions. An empty circle on the label recommends dry cleaning, crossed out - 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. P - dry cleaning is possible with such solvents as chlorine ethylene, monofluorotrichloromethane, hydrocarbon. F - dry cleaning using triflotrichloromethane and hydrocarbon.
The white triangle allows whitening, black forbids. 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
An empty square allows drying. The presence in the square of the circle indicates the validity of the spin. The indicated temperature will indicate the optimum drying mode. By the arrangement of the strips inside the square, it’s quite simple to guess how to dry the product: on a rope, horizontally, vertically without spin or in the shade.
Ironing
A schematic ironing will tell the housewife how to iron clothes correctly. First of all, this, of course, is the temperature regime, and secondly, the possibility of steaming.
This is for the basic conventions, but there are many more specific icons. If you want to wear your favorite thing for longer, carefully look through all the signs on the clothes, find out what she likes and what will permanently ruin her. For this, it is necessary that the cheat sheet is always at your fingertips.