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Students’ Understanding and Use of Information on Care Labels on Clothes
Journal of Art and Design
| Vol 3, Issue 1
Table 9. Percentages of students who were able to identify the caresymbols.
| Frequency | Percentage | Frequency | Percentage | |
| Z- Do not wring | 135 | 84.9 | 24 | 15.1 |
| E- Hand wash | 127 | 79.9 | 32 | 20.1 |
| W- Do not iron | 126 | 79.2 | 33 | 20.8 |
| U- Iron (high) | 125 | 78.6 | 34 | 21.4 |
| F- Do not wash | 118 | 74.2 | 41 | 25.8 |
| V- Do not steam | 114 | 71.7 | 45 | 28.3 |
| S- Iron (low) | 114 | 71.7 | 45 | 28.3 |
| T- Iron (medium) | 111 | 69.8 | 48 | 30.2 |
| H- Only chlorine bleaching is allowed | 107 | 67.3 | 52 | 32.7 |
| R- Iron in any temperature (steam or dry) | 106 | 66.7 | 53 | 33.3 |
| Y- Do not dry clean | 89 | 56.0 | 70 | 44.0 |
| B- Machine wash (cold) | 80 | 50.3 | 79 | 49.7 |
| D- Machine wash (hot) | 75 | 47.2 | 84 | 52.8 |
| P- Dry flat | 71 | 44.7 | 88 | 55.3 |
| A-Machine wash (normal) | 70 | 44.0 | 89 | 56.0 |
| O- Drip dry | 70 | 44.0 | 89 | 56.0 |
| M- Do not dry | 67 | 42.1 | 92 | 57.9 |
| J- Bleaching is not allowed | 66 | 41.5 | 93 | 58.5 |
| Q- Dry in shade | 66 | 41.5 | 93 | 58.5 |
| I-Only non-chlorine bleaching is allowed | 65 | 40.9 | 94 | 59.1 |
| X- Dry clean | 65 | 40.9 | 94 | 59.1 |
| K- Tumble dry | 64 | 40.3 | 95 | 59.7 |
| G- Bleaching is allowed | 60 | 37.7 | 99 | 62.3 |
| C-Machine wash (warm) | 54 | 34.0 | 105 | 66.0 |
| L- Do not tumble dry | 48 | 30.2 | 111 | 69.8 |
| N- Line dry | 40 | 25.2 | 119 | 74.8 |