Symbols on clothes

Often you can hear from housewives a complaint aboutvolume bought in an expensive shop thing as quickly lost its appearance, as well as clothes purchased in the market. The reasons may be very different, but above all it is worth considering whether you properly care for your clothes, whether the practice directions on the label, can correctly decode the symbol on clothing icons?

In fact, the information on the labels of your newblouse or trousers in sufficient detail can tell if it is possible, 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 from what material the product is made, the composition of raw materials in percent and some conventional symbols. On clothes you can meet both clear and obscure icons, so it is desirable for a modern hostess to have at home a special notepad with explanations of how to properly care for the wardrobe in order to preserve the quality and impeccable appearance of each thing. Of course, certain, often encountered symbols can be remembered, but others sometimes do not even know how to decipher, let alone to keep them in memory. Let's try to understand the markings and understand the basic designations on clothes.

DesignationsI, concerning washing of products

How and at what temperature it is necessary to erase a thing, you can find out by what form the schematic water basin on the label is depicted.

So, if such an image is present, and ittherefore, washing is permissible, otherwise the product should be cleaned in other ways. The figure in the figure indicates which water temperature is recommended by the manufacturer, sometimes the numbers are replaced by dots. One point corresponds to 30 degrees, two - 40, three - 60 and so on. The designation on clothes in the form of a hand lowered in water will indicate the need for manual washing. An important detail for all signs of clothing care is the presence of one or two horizontal lines under the pattern. One warns of a sparing way of carrying out this operation, and two - about delicate.

Dry cleaning and bleaching

Dry-cleaning conditions will be described byclothes in the form of a circle. An empty circle on the label recommends dry cleaning, crossed out - prohibits the use of any chemical agents. If the circle contains inside the letters A, P, F, you should pay attention to the solvents to be used. A - dry cleaning with the use of any solvent is possible. P - possible dry cleaning with solvents such as chlorine ethylene, monofluorotrichloromethane, hydrocarbon. F - dry cleaning using trifluorotrichloromethane and hydrocarbon.

White triangle allows bleaching, blackforbids. The presence in it of letters CL allows the use of chlorine. If these letters are crossed out or there are oblique bands in the triangle, the bleaching agents used should not contain chlorine.

Drying

An empty square allows drying. The presence of a square in the circle indicates the availability of spin. The indicated temperature will show the optimum drying mode. By the arrangement of the bands inside the square, it is easy enough to guess how to dry the product: on a rope, horizontally, vertically, without spinning or in the shade.

Ironing

Schematic ironing will tell the housewife how to iron clothes properly. First of all, this is, of course, the temperature regime, and the second - the possibility of stripping.

This is what concerns the basic conditionalbut there are many more specific icons. If you want to wear your favorite thing longer, carefully look at all the signs on the clothes, find out what she likes and what will irretrievably ruin her. For this it is necessary that the cheat sheet always be at your fingertips.