olena
Can we please have some consumer EU legislation that will prohibit making clothes with labels that can’t be easily removed? I don’t even want to know what goes in heads of those designers who slap a piece with metallic thread right at that spot below your neck that is always touching and sew it there in a way that it can’t be removed without damaging the clothes. It’s just #autistic nightmare, and it’s so completely useless!!!
Or am I the only one struggling?
@actuallyautistic
Mar 25, 2024 at 9:18pmWeb
Show threadLVN2DRMMar 25, 2024
@olena @actuallyautistic I agree with you. This is one of my personal peeves, too. Why the heck do they want to irritate our neck?
Show threadolenaMar 25, 2024
@LVN2DRM @actuallyautistic and I swear, those labels are better sewn to the garment that its buttons and even seams are!
Show threadLVN2DRMMar 25, 2024
@olena @actuallyautistic Exactly! I wish they’d sew the seams as well as they sew these tags. Better yet, I wish they made them out of something soft & sewed them someplace else. Hanes has tee shirts without tags. I don’t know why none of the other clothing manufacturers followed suit.
Show threadolenaMar 25, 2024
@LVN2DRM @actuallyautistic yeah, there are sometimes the ones that don’t have tags and have the sizing info printed on the inside, some have tags specifically sewn with one distinctly colored thread which you can pull for the tag to easily come off - there are solutions available. But at the same time some would just sew the tag in the seam so there’s no way to remove it at all. Or have a sign to cut it off, but it will stab and irritate you if you do. Just why?
Show threadlouisa_ :)Mar 26, 2024

@olena Decathlon has particularly obnoxious labels but on some of their products at least, they're attached with a scrap of jersey-- the jersey is sewn into the seam so when you remove the label, you're left with a piece of soft fabric rather than a scratchy nightmare, and the basic info is printed on the garment too. It's great.

I'm a "many of the exact same item" person when it comes to clothes so have at least a dozen black tshirts from them.

Why can't all manufacturers do the same??