How To Care For Your Clothes

How to Care for Your
Clothes
Irma Garza
Personal and Family Development,
Bearkat High School
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Care Labels
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Sorting
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Stains
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Water Temperatures
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Washing
◦
Machine Washing
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Drying
◦
Tumble Drying
Key Points
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Identify the following Care Label symbols.
Care Labels Pre-Quiz
Washing Drying
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What do the dots within the symbols indicate?
Temperature
Care Labels
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Most important tip:
!
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Located on the neck or back of the garment
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Information:
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Fabric
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Method of washing and drying
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Washing and drying temperature
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Bleaching
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Ironing
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Dry Cleaning
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Sorting
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Most step!
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Why should I sort my clothing?
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Find stains and damages
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Avoid laundry mishaps
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How?
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Read the label!
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Type of fabric and weight, color, degree of soil
TIME CONSUMING
Sorting
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Whites
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Brights
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Lights
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Darks
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Delicates
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Heavily soiled items
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Linens
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Towels and other “lint-givers”
Sorting
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Group Activity!
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Directions:
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Split up into groups of 4

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Collect supplies – bag with labeled
clothes pins and clothes cards
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Sort clothes cards according to laundry
piles and group onto clothes pins
Stains
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Treat stain within 24 hours
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Done before washing
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Washing can permanently set stains in!
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Types
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-based stains
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Tar, candle wax, motor oil, grease, fat, dressing, butter,
and margarine
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Use spot/stain remover
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-based stains
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Soft drinks, tea, black coffee and fruit juice
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Should wash out with normal washing
OIL
WATER

Water
Temperatures
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Most important tip: !
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Hot
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Cleans fastest and best
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Very dirty clothes only!
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Warm
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Remove wrinkles
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Best for colorfast darks
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Colorfast – color that is resistant to fading or running
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Cold
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Most clothing
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Bright colors
READ THE LABEL
Washing
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Read the care label !
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Types of washing

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Hand
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Delicate
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Loosely woven or knitted
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Wool
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Machine
Machine
Washing
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Read detergent instructions for measurement
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Read the care label !
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Water temperature
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Cycle instructions
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Remember: do not !
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Wrinkling
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Dirty clothes
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Pre-treated garments should be
overload
pre-washed

Drying
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Read the care label !
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Types of drying
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Line
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Flat
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Garments that shrink or stretch out of
shape
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Tumble
Tumble
Drying
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Read the care label !
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Dryer temperature
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Tumble instructions
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Quickest way
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Remember: do not !
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Wrinkling
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Damp clothes

overload
Caring for
Clothing
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Read the care label !
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Save money
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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.
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