Abstract
When clothes were handmade within each household, all the washing was done at home and there were hardly any washing accidents.
Now that clothes are mass-produced commercially, however, a great variety of materials require different handling. Checking care labels is not only one of the effective ways to prevent washing accidents, but can also help consumers make a wise selection of clothes. Therefore, care directions on the labels should be accurate and comprehensible.
Considering that pupils and students are future manufacturers as well as consumers, I have compared and examined the existing teaching materials for home economics education, while developing new ones.
As a result, some inadequate expressions were found regard- ing "Care Labelling of Textile Goods" in the textbooks and reference books widely used in elementary, junior high, and high schools. Special mention should be made that the warning signs on the care labels are often drawn in colors other than red, which is generally recognized as a color of caution.
