Although some tags and packaging offer written care instructions, laundry symbols are standardized to provide universal imagery for how to care for items. The graphics represent five types of laundry ...

"In doubt, the key is to look for those symbols and pay attention to the instructions and any accompanying text, which should provide guidance on how to care for the specific garment," Sokolowski says ...

DO you ever get confused at the laundry care label on your clothes when you are staring at all the symbols? You aren’t alone.

There’s nothing worse than buying a new fluffy jumper, only to pull it out of the washing machine and find it could now fit a puppy. With so many complicated and confusing care label symbols ...

There you'll see clear instructions on how to wash, dry and iron the garment without the faff of looking up each individual ...

If you need help understanding the symbols, here’s a handy ... room around it when it’s the only instruction given on the tag ...

As Gagliardi mentioned, throwing your set of sheets in the washer once a week is best, although Elks says you can likely push ...

This is the first in an occasional series on suburban symbolism. Symbol No 1 – washing the car. A symbol is something that has a meaning beyond itself. So two raised fingers are a symbol because ...

There’s nothing worse than buying a new fluffy jumper, only to pull it out of the washing machine and find it could now fit a puppy. With so many complicated and confusing care label symbols, it’s no ...