Laundry Icons Decoded

By Mike Acton and Daughter (Thanks: Ed Bartley)

You know those little icons on clothes tags? I sat down with Daughter and we worked out their meanings.

 

See: https://plus.google.com/105595823502776413734/posts/RUs5PQEPXgU

See also: http://www.textileaffairs.com/c-common.htm

 

 

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Clothes suitable for a king

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Clothes suitable for a Cyclops king

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Clothes suitable for a human king

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Clothes suitable for a mutant fish king

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Clothes suitable for human king with glasses

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Clothes suitable for human king with eyebrow issues

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Clothes suitable for insect king

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You can wear these clothes after you decapitate the king.

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You can wear these clothes after you decapitate the king and deliver the head to me on a silver platter.

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You can wear these clothes only after you steal the crown right off the king’s head.

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Clothes suitable only for kings that secretly fight crime in the night while hiding their identity under a mask.

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Knowledge of trigonometry required to wear these clothes.

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These clothes can be rendered most efficiently using triangle strips.

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Be careful of attracting mice while wearing these clothes.

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Special outfit for use only when pressing the big, red button.

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Clothes suitable for DJs only.

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Clothes suitable for human peeping through windows.

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Clothes suitable for mutant fish peeping through windows.

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Clothes suitable for ninja peeping through windows.

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Clothes suitable for television news anchors.

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Clothes suitable for eating TV tray dinner in front of TV news.

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Clothes suitable for hipters that refuse to own TVs.

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Clothes not suitable for washing windows.

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Clothes so small they fit in an envelope. (Warning to fathers.)

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Clothes susceptible to blowing around and exposing self when standing over air vent.

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 Clothes suited for characters in arcade games; expect mocking.

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Clothes suitable for Justin Bieber.

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Bow ties are not cool.

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‘A’ These clothes only suitable for attractive people.

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 These clothes attract Cyclops spies (looking around corners)

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These clothes attract human spies (looking around corners) <- Thanks, Ed.

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These clothes only suitable for Toy Story aliens.

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These clothes not suitable for big, fat people with small, skinny legs.

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’A’ These clothes only suitable for not-attractive people.

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These clothes only suitable for watching the Hudsucker Proxy.

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These clothes suitable only for students with 4.0 average.

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These clothes suitable for students that just don’t give a damn.

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These clothes suitable for parents that insist on putting those bumper stickers on their car about their kid being something of the month at their local school.

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Clothes suitable for right-handed person while speaking on cell phone.

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Clothes suitable for right-handed graduate.

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Clothes suitable for left-handed person while speaking on cell phone.

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Clothes suitable for left-handed graduate.

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Clothes suitable for people who neither own a cell phone nor have graduated.