We only have three setting on our washing machine here: 40°C, the wool cycle and an incendiary 90°C. Actually it's a very nice washing machine and has a whole host of setting and dials on it, but we're simple folk here. The bedding gets washed on a very eco unfriendly and incendiary 90°C, the wollen stuff get washed on the wool setting to prevent shrinkage, and everything else gets washed on 40°C and tumbled dried*. If it doesn't survive this washing regime it's not going to survive in our household. Surprisingly, despite all the dire warnings and mulitude of symbols on the labels, virtually everything does. This includes some items that claim to be dry-clean only.
This bears out something I heard on a radio programme years ago. They were interviewing a clothing manufacturer who admitted that some of the time they put "Dry-clean only" labels on just to be on the safe side. Safe for them, but tedious and somewhat expensive for us, not to mention rather eco-unfriendly.
Perhaps we should have a "Dry-clean-ish" label and a "Dry-clean-only-and-we-really-really-do-mean-it" label.
*Not always, depends on the weather.
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