This document provides guidelines for clothing care, including how to treat stains, methods for pressing or ironing clothes, proper storage, and understanding fabric care labels. It advises treating stains quickly to prevent setting them and lists options for stain removal like rinsing, soaking, or using bleach or pre-treaters. Pressing is described as a light touch-up with the iron while ironing involves treating the whole garment. Clothes should be stored on hangers or shelves to avoid wrinkles, with pockets emptied and closures fastened. Care labels are regulated and include standardized care code symbols to define washing and drying temperatures.

1. Clothing Care
Basics
Chapter 14

2. Why Care for Clothes?
 Organized, clean, in •Save time
good repair and money
when you need them
•Last longer, if stains are dealt
with quickly
•Avoid dry-cleaning bills

3. Stains
DO NOT DO – 4 options
 Launder in hot water without  Rinse in cold water
treating stains  Soak for 30 minutes
 Can set the stain and make  Bleach – diluted, only for
it almost impossible to whites
remove  Pre-treat – liquid detergent or
paste on stain before
laundering
Other pre-treatment options
Prewash soil and
stain remover
Don’t use enzyme pre-soak with
wool or silk!
 protein-based fibers
An enzyme pre-soak for Chocolate,
blood, egg, meat juice, milk,
perspiration, grass, or other protein
stains

4. Pressing vs. Ironing
 Pressing is a light touch-up of a
garment, lifting and lowering the iron
lightly from one area to the next
 Ironing the whole garment is more
time consuming and involved

5. Putting Clothes Away
Avoid
This! And
This!
And
This!

6. Putting Clothes Away
 Put woven garments on hangers
Empty pockets, close
Use a wide hanger
zipper or top button
for jackets or
crease-prone items
 Knitted garments
should be stored on a
shelf or drawer

7. Fabric Care Labels
 All garments must
include a care label
 Regulated by
 Not required on
socks and hosiery

8. Care Codes
 Care codes were standardized in 1997 due to
globalization of fashion production
Use of Dots For Defining Temperature of Water for
Tumble Dry Washing Symbol
Wash Symbol Definition Description
95°C Near boil
Do not wring 70°C Extremely hot
Bleach
60°C Very hot
Dry Flat
50°C Hot
Iron
40°C Warm
Line Dry
30°C Cool
Dry Clean

9. Homework:
Complete the worksheet on
stains and care codes