What Do the Symbols on Your Clothes' Care Label Mean?
What Do the Symbols on Your Clothes' Care Label Mean?
By LogoSportswear | Updated on August 10, 2023
Have you ever looked at the laundry tags tucked inside your shirts and wondered what the symbols meant? These symbols tell us how to properly wash, dry, and iron our clothes so that they can work as intended for as long as possible. If you ignore these instructions, you risk destroying the material, fading the colors sooner, or shrinking the garment sooner than expected. But this doesn't have to be the case. Give your T-shirts, jackets, and sweatshirts the care they deserve and prolong their lifespan by familiarizing yourself with the clothing care symbols below:
Laundry Tag Symbols Guide
You'll normally find three main categories on clothing care tags: one for washing, one for drying, and one for ironing, and under each main category are more specific instructions. The main categories can also be marked with X's to indicate what you shouldn't do the garment, while the dots inside icons usually indicate levels of temperature you should wash, press, or dry the clothes.
The icon that looks like a tub is for washing, and variations of the tub icon may indicate the intensity of cycle, water temperature, whether you should handwash, use a washing machine, or not wash it at all. The symbols for washing usually sit next to triangle icons which pertain to varying degrees of bleach - from zero to high chlorine.
The combination of squares and circles with a circle inside refer to drying instructions, and the number of dots inside the sole circle refer to the dryer temperature.
The flat iron icons refer to ironing and steaming instructions and they indicate levels of heat too.
The guide below will help you become more familiar with these icons and the exact meaning of each symbol:
Use this handy guide to create clothing tags or care reminders for all the custom apparel you design, and help your customers maintain the quality of their shirts. Your customers and employees will appreciate the easy reference ensuring the best clothing care, and they'd be happy that you're helping them live a more sustainable lifestyle by keeping their clothes wearable for years.