It is small, discreet and often on a white background. A detail that everyone ignores … until the day when your favorite t-shirt will come out of the machine in tatters or stained.
You have surely tried to read a clothing label. A series of small pictures with squares, rounds, tanks and crosses. In theory, nothing rocket science, these drawings indicate how to maintain your laundry. However, there is a very particular symbol that systematically passes through the hatch. Generally poorly understood, it nevertheless reveals a capital info.
The most common error? Think that all clothes are washing in the same way. Because it’s white, because it’s dirty, because we want it to come out “as new”. Except that this shortcut can damage a fabric in a single washing. The color turns, the fabric yellows, sometimes it crumbles squarely. And it is not a question of quality, but a bad choice of product. A detail that escapes many, and that ended up panicking Tiktok. Indeed, in a video that has become viral, a content creator has decoded this symbol. In comments, Internet users were surprised: “I ruined so many shirts without knowing it!”, explains one of them.
Forget the squares, cross and small circles, we talk about the triangle here. This one tells you if the fabric can be bleached, in other words which can be applied with bleach. An empty triangle: green light for bleach, whatever it is. A triangle crossed by two oblique bars: okay, but without chlorine. And a triangle barred with a large X? Total prohibition.
Next to this symbol, we therefore find a tank for washing, a square for drying, an iron for ironing, a circle for pressing. So, the next time you have a laundry to do, remember to check this detail, far from being one!
