How to Read Fabric Tags in Men's Dress Shirts

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Summary: Learn how to read fabric tags for a men's dress shirt in this free video with clothes care tips from our ironing expert.

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Donna Beth Joy Shapiro Donna Beth Joy Shapiro, a well-known style-maker, hostess, and historic preservationist, is a life-long resident of Baltimore City. For thirteen years, she pl... read more

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How to Read Fabric Tags in Men's Dress Shirts

Hello, I'm Donna Beth Joy Shapiro on behalf of ExpertVillage.com and today I'm going to show you how to iron a shirt. In this clip, we are going to talk about how to read the garment care labels. On a cotton shirt, a one hundred percent cotton shirt, it's very safe to iron it. However, it will also have a label and the label is right here. Normally, a garment tag label will have a little iron with one, two or three dots. One dot would mean you would use the minimum setting on your iron. Two dots would mean that you use the middle setting on your iron, and three dots is for the cotton and linen shirts. This shirt is half synthetic. You should not assume that you could iron a shirt that is synthetic or half synthetic. This is fifty percent cotton and fifty percent poly and it does have a garment label. It has a label down here. It has an iron with two dots which means that you would iron the shirt on the middle setting. If you have a silk shirt, I don't have one here to show you, but if you have a silk shirt, you would iron that on the minimal setting. And, anything that you are ironing, if you aren't sure what the setting that you should use is, or if you don't know the fabric content, stay on the minimum setting. If that doesn't work for you, then keep increasing it. But, you need to be very, very careful that you are not going to melt the fabric or bring any shine to the fabric with too hot of an iron.