Information About Care Label On Garments

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Care labels on garments provide a brief information about the associated brand along with the products quality and instructions to be followed. Almost all the clothes come with such labels these days. Read on as the article below discusses a lot about the care labels.

According to the international standards every importer and manufacturer have to attach the care label as a part of Garment label. This is compulsory as per the laws of "Federal Trade Commission". It is must that every garment has care label attached with at least one minimum garment care instruction. This rule does not apply for apparels like hats, suede, gloves, leather coats and clothings and items that are used for the purpose of house old use like linens and other similar items.

Along with the compulsory requirement of such labels on each garment the manufacturer also has to make sure that the label is found easily and not hidden from normal view and also not found separately from the body of the garment. That is it has to be found easily and must be attached to the garment. This label should consist of all care details that the user must follow ...
... for extended durability of the cloth. If the garment has some instructions to be followed but sometimes might cause harm to the garment while following those or cause harm to other garments that have been washed along with than those details should also be mentioned.

Details like if the instructions mentioned does not harm the garment or other garments that those also have to be included in the Garment label. The care labels present in the garment can be very helpful for most of the people. When customers select the garment they can check the care label instructions and then decide if they can maintain the garment or not. The care instructions that are available in garments are generally like dry cleaners, dry clean professionally, machine wash and other similar instructions. Most of the time they are all written with the use of symbols too.

If the care label mentions dry clean then you can dry clean the garment in any coin service shops or by yourself. The use of dry cleaning liquids is permitted in this garment. You can follow all the normal procedures followed by dry cleaning. It also means you can hot tumble dry the garment at the temperature of 160 F. Under such instruction pressing the garment with air-foam finishing and steam pressing is also allowed. If the care label present in the garment mentions dry clean professionally then you have to take it to any professional dry cleaners in any commercial plants.

You should never dry clean this garment all by yourself or any other place. Also such labels should include information to the maximum such as the level of moisture allowed to be used, the temperature to be used and the kind of pressing you are supposed to use in this garment. If the wash care labels mention as machine wash then you can machine wash these garments at home or any commercial outlets. But it is important that this label should have detailed information such as the temperature you have to set for washing this cloth, the load size allowed to use this garment and the procedures involved in drying this garment.

When the wash care or garment labels instructions are followed in any garment it helps in increasing the life of the garment and also in good maintenance if the garment.

The author of this article is associated with Nationbright Industries, a leading manufacturer, supplier and exporter of fashion products and accessories. They are a premier name among the topmost fashion jewelry manufacturers.