New Clothing Symbols: Do they Wash?

A recent standard promulgated by ASTM (D 5489) presents symbols to be used on clothing labels to indicate how they should be cared for in the cleaning process. The present studies were performed to evaluate how well these symbols would be understood by individuals who might use them. Four experiment...

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