Clothing is still strange when it comes to care instructions, even after decades of change and adaptation. There is nothing that puts a woman off more than finding a nice article of clothing and finding the instructions demand drying flat. Or worse, reshaping before drying flat.
The most flat space any of us sees in today’s architecture is in the local laundromat, which has counters on which to fold laundry. Of course, users also sort dirty laundry on there, set their kids on there and spill bleach on there.
Not much thought seems to be devoted to the space one needs to do laundry, so why are clothes still carrying “dry flat” labels in them? The first answer that comes to mind is drying racks. I have a friend who substituted racks for her dryer because it has never worked right since she bought it, so she would rather let nature do the drying for her.
Some clothes are just to nice to pass up, so I can either break down and buy a drying rack, or I can gamble on throwing the “delicates” in a pillow case in the dryer on low and chance having them come out right. I don’t think that clothing should come with the same responsibilities one would take on with a pet or a piece of complex circuitry.
Or then there’s polyester.
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