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clothing labels

excpa — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:54:29 GMT

I'm not buying any more clothing until they replace the labels with somethingh that doesn't saw into my skin. I spend a lot of money and I shouldn't have to spend time removing labels so that I am not in pain when wearing clothing. It looks like I'm hiding something, with all the labels removed. That, plus the tyeeny tiny holes the label removal leaves. Anyone else have sensitive skin that is being rubbed the wrong way?

Re: clothing labels

DecorDiva — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:06:33 GMT

Yes! I have to remove labels at the neck and the ones in the side seams. Even if they print the info on the back of the neck, they still have the side labels. On better garments they are sewn separately from the seams. I use a seam ripper, and as careful as I try to be, I have made tiny holes in my clothes. So annoying!

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seaBreeze — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:19:55 GMT

This is why I will not purchase Skinny Tees~! I only buy clothes with 'printed tags'. Like you, I am super sensitive to these scratchy, irritating labels.

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gidgetgh — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 18:30:23 GMT

I hate the labels and remove them the first time I wear an item.

Makes things tricky when I donate clothes because the charity has no idea what size they are, but I can't stand the tags.

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software — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 18:51:29 GMT

My son is now 36 but when he was a kid if I gave him something new to wear, he would rip out the tag, sometimes ripping the garment. We still tease him about it.

It's funny how some of the more pricey clothing lines have the most obnoxious tags. Oh, I think I broke the code.....hmmmm.

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Noel7 — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 19:33:59 GMT

I hate those labels, I have very sensitive skin and some of them cut.

The worst is when the label is sewn into the seam. There's no way to use a stitch ripper, you have to cut it off which almost makes it worse, like a little saw at the top of your spine.

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faeriemoon — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 20:04:44 GMT

The best thing the garment industry ever did was to start stamping the info inside the garment. I too am a label remover. Can't stand them. Use my seam ripper to get those suckers out.

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Bri36 — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 20:33:47 GMT

I prefer the printed labels. Not everybody does that though.

Some labels bother me more than others. It is like a saw running over your back.

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alicedee — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 20:37:35 GMT

Just this morning I took off a lovely shirt I had just put on because the tag (with some kind of metalic thread on it) was scratching the back of my neck. It's such a delicate fabric I know it will leave holes if I try to remove it...maybe I can cut it really close to the seam. Guess it's worth a try...I'm not going to wear it the way it is!

Re: clothing labels

hckynut — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 20:46:40 GMT

@excpa

I have gotten well over 100 T-shirts from competitions I have entered over several decades. First thing I have always done/do? Cut off all the labels, and some had 2, even 3 of them on different parts of the shirts.

Easy to know my shirts from my wife's, she always knew this easy way of separation, she just thinks I am nuts. I do notice more briefs, and shirts are putting the info in the material, and to me that's a good thing.

I mean, how much more could this cost a company to do this as opposed to scratchy labels poking our body?

hckynut(john)