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Choose garments, fabrics carefully to get best buys By Joanne j. falls Agricultural Extension Agent When you shop for clothes nowadays, there is one thing of which you can be sure, and that is that the prices will be high. You want to know that you are getting a good buy for your money, and that the merchandise is of good quality. By examining the garment in the store, you can determine the quality of the workmanship. There is another factor to be considered before deciding whether or not a garment is worth purchas ing, and that is the care necessary to maintain its new-looking appear ance. Fabrics are either machine washable, hand washable or dry cleanable, and you must be willing to accept and follow the directions for care supplied by the manu facturer of the garment. Dry cleaning is an added expense and you there fore may wish to look for gar ments that can withstand nor mal washing -with regular detergents and oxygen bleach. When you buy any textile prod uct, you expect it to retain its new looking appearance for some time. One factor that can greatly influence the breakdown of this new look, -however, is color loss from the fab ric. This problem can occur in the washing process or with exposure to sunlight or even the atmosphere alone. The following are terms given for various types of color loss. Fugitivity is a general term used when colors are not colorfast and are lost by one or more methods. Bleeding refers to dyes which fade or run in water. They will turn the water a shade of the color released. Crocking is the rubbing or abrading of color from fabric sur only fixed onto the surface of a fab ric and has not penetrated into the fibers. Falls Migration describes the shifting of color to adjacent areas in printed fabrics, as when the white back ground of a red print turns pink after washing. Fume fading , also known as atmospheric fading, is caused by certain elements in the air combining and causing some dyes to lose color. This may be noticeable when you take a garment that has been stored for some time out from the back of a dark closet. Often it will be the shoulders which will fade first. Sunlight fading is the loss of color due to exposure to sunlight. Curtains and draperies are especially susceptible to this type of fading if they are riot lined. Perspiration fading is the breakdown of dyes in the presence of perspiration. It is most often apparent under the arms, especially on summer or sport clothes. For the dyes used in all fabrics to be colorfast to all the above meth ods of color loss would be unneces sary. For example, it would be need less to use a color dye which is fast to perspiration fading on a drapery fabric and likewise to use a dye that will not bleed on a fabric that will only be dry cleaned. It is important, therefore, that the dyes used on fab rics be appropriate for the end use of ^Qunotda "TiIjqLq ?? I- 1 88 * Ml YNOI I >A vianiiii' CENT! R ( ARMWf r All Show$ $2.50 'til 5 p.m. ^ ^ All Shows Start Friday TUESDAY SPECIAL ALL SHOWS $2.49 m Gonna Get Ya Sucka 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00,9:00 W CHANtES are <po> ] 1:00. 31)0,5:00, 7:00, 9 QO 'olice Academy 6<pg) . -1 :00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 A 99C pari if i Cur 'Turin / /H4 0??0 t-AHKVif A '.??!? f TH N Mon.-Frf. 7fl0, S*-Sitf2:30, 430, 7:00, 9?0 BURNINQ (R> the textile product. Washability should mean being able to wash a fabric repeatedly without the fabric showing evidence of loss of strength (tears or holes) or loss of color. A washable fabric may be considerably changed by the addition of color dyes, or chemical treatment, and by additions of other fabrics such as linings, etc., when transformed into a garment. Also, fabric construction makes a differ ence in washability of a fabric cate gory. We think of cotton as one of the best washable fabrics, being even stronger when wet than when dry, and yet it is evident that corduroy, denim and percale have much greater washability that gauze, dot ted swiss, organdy and lawn. Your guide, therefore, to the proper care of a textile product is the specific statement on the hang tags or care labels that state that a garment is guaranteed washable or that it has guaranteed washable (tub-fast) col ors. Only the manufacturer can give you this information. Anything less specific involves a risk on your part. When a garment carries such a guar antee, it can be washed normally,' using a regular detergent and a safe" oxygen bleach. JJPf USOA Choice Beef LONDON BROIL/ BOTTOM ROUND ROAST/ BONELESS CHUCK ROAST Prices in this ad good thru Sunday, March 12, 1988. "////> I? * . Ul ? IIVI iiiwiw . BACON 24/1 2-oz. MILLER Genuine Draft Reg./Light, CANS Washington State RED OR GOLD APPLES 12/12-oz. CANS 2 Liter PEPSI Pepsi Free Diet Mtn. Dow Mtn. Dew 41.09 Diet Pepsi or Diet Pepsi Frse 41 .05 EXTRA LOW PRICES.. .EVERYDAY!!! Fresh Green BROCCOLI Jumbo 0 Bunch Red Ripe STRAWBERRIES $ Quart 18.25 Oz. - Assorted Betty Crocker/Duncan Hines CAKE MIXES 69c aimm raim' 36 Ounce TREND DETERGENT LaFamous Rounds And Triangles WISE SNACKS 8 Pack - 1 Ply Toilet Tissue PAGE ^King KUTS 6.5 Oz. - Beef-Liver/Beet/ Beef-Chicken Dog Food KING KUTS 4828 Country Club Road 1 236 Wa ugh town Street (k*5 Peters Crock Parkway 7760 Silas Creek Parkway at University Park waT" *<>04 Kcynoldn Road y There is a Footl Lion conveniently located near you: J FOOD LION 3505 N. Patterson Ave. Nort hsido Shopping Cento 550 Claremont Ave. I^'wisville Cleuimons Road Clommons shallowford Road Lewisville 100 Bermuda Quay in Bermuda Quay Center Advaru -hostcr Plaza
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