How To Care For Your Clothes

How to Care for Your Clothes Irma Garza Personal and Family Development, Bearkat High School...  Identify the following Care Label symbols.. Care Labels Pre-Quiz  What do the dots with

How to Care for Your

Clothes

Irma Garza

Personal and Family Development,

Bearkat High School

 Care Labels

 Sorting

 Stains

◦ Machine Washing

 Drying

◦ Tumble Drying

Key Points

 Identify the following Care Label symbols

Care Labels Pre-Quiz

 What do the dots within the symbols indicate?

Temperature

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

 Most step!

 Why should I sort my clothing?

 How?

 Read the label!

TIME CONSUMING

 Whites

 Brights

 Lights

 Darks

 Delicates

 Heavily soiled items

 Linens

 Towels and other “lint-givers”

 Group Activity!

 Directions:

 Split up into groups of 4

 Collect supplies – bag with labeled

clothes pins and clothes cards

 Sort clothes cards according to laundry piles and group onto clothes pins

 Treat stain within 24 hours

 Done before washing

 Washing can permanently set stains in!

 Types

 -based stains

 Tar, candle wax, motor oil, grease, fat, dressing, 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

Water Temperatures

 Most important tip: !

 Hot

 Warm

 Cold

READ THE LABEL

 Types of washing

 Hand

 Delicate

 Loosely woven or knitted

 Wool

 Machine

Machine Washing

 Read detergent instructions for measurement

 Water temperature

 Cycle instructions

 Remember: do not !

 Wrinkling

 Dirty clothes

 Pre-treated garments should be

overload

pre-washed

 Types of drying

 Line

 Flat

 Garments that shrink or stretch out of shape

 Tumble

Tumble Drying

 Dryer temperature

 Tumble instructions

 Quickest way

 Remember: do not !

 Wrinkling

overload

Caring for Clothing

 Extend the life of your wardrobe

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

<http://www.extension.iastate.edu/homefamily/clothing/>.