How to Care for Your Clothes

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How to Care for Your Clothes
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Key Points

• Care Labels
• Sorting
• Stains
• Water Temperatures
• Washing
• Machine Washing
• Hand Washing
• Drying
• Tumble Drying
• Line Dry
• Dry Flat

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Easy Care

• Care labels provide helpful information that can
  save you time and money.
• Cleaner, fresher clothes means longer
• wearing apparel.
• Clothes that are bleachable are easier to get
  clean.

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Care Labels

• Identify the following Care Label symbols.

• Washing

Drying

• What do the dots within the symbols indicate?

Temperature
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Care Labels

• Most important tip
  !
• Located on the neck or back of the garment
• Information
• Fabric
• Method of washing and drying
• Washing and drying temperature
• Bleaching
• Ironing
• Dry Cleaning
• http//www.textileaffairs.com/docs/lguide.pdf

READ THE CARE LABEL
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Sorting

• Most step!
• Why should I sort my clothing?
• Find stains and damages
• Avoid laundry mishaps
• How?
• Read the label!
• Type of fabric and weight, color, degree of soil

TIME CONSUMING
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Sorting

• Whites
• Brights
• Lights
• Darks
• Delicates

• Heavily soiled items
• Linens
• Towels and other lint-givers

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Stains

• Treat stain within 24 hours
• Done before washing
• Washing can permanently set stains in!
• Types
• -based stains
• Tar, candle wax, motor oil, grease, fat, butter,
  and margarine
• Use spot/stain remover
• -based stains
• Soft drinks, tea, black coffee and fruit juice
• Should wash out with normal washing

OIL
WATER
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Water Temperatures

• Most important tip !
• Hot
• Cleans fastest and best
• Very dirty clothes only!
• Warm
• Remove wrinkles
• Best for colorfast darks
• Colorfast color that is resistant to fading or
  running
• Cold
• Most clothing
• Bright colors

READ THE LABEL
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Washing

• Read the care label !
• Types of washing
• Hand
• Delicate
• Loosely woven or knitted
• Wool
• Machine

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Machine Washing

• Read detergent instructions for measurement
• Read the care label !
• Water temperature
• Cycle instructions
• Remember do not !
• Wrinkling
• Dirty clothes
• Pre-treated garments should be
  

overload
pre-washed
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• Water Temperatures
• Water Temperature 30C/85F 104F (Cool/Cold)
• Water Temperature 40C/105F 119F (Warm)
• Water Temperature 50C/120F - Up (Hot)

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Drying

• Read the care label !
• Types of drying
• Line
• Flat
• Garments that shrink or stretch out of shape
• Tumble

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Tumble Drying

• Read the care label !
• Dryer temperature
• Tumble instructions
• Quickest way
• Remember do not !
• Wrinkling
• Damp clothes

overload
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Caring for Clothing

• Read the care label !
• Save money
• Extend the life of your clothes
• Works Cited
• Gentzler, Yvonne S. and Louise A. Liddell.
  Caring for Clothes. Building Life Skills.
  Tinely Park, Illinois 2003. Pages 429 -437.
• Stone, Jan. Clothing and Textiles. Home and
  Family. Iowa State University. 9 December 1996.
• lthttp//www.extension.iastate.edu/homefamily/clot
  hing/gt.

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