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How to Take Care of Clothes

Whether you prefer dazzling sequence, woolen, soft

cotton and polyester, how you care for your garments

will affect the life length of your clothes tremendously.

You can also save money on future clothing purchases

by taking the proper measures to care for your clothes.

Follow the given points to take care of your clothes.

We should wash our clothes with a good detergent and Ironed clothes
water.

After washing the clothes, we should dry them in the

sun so that the bad odour vanishes from the clothes.

We should iron our clothes. Ironing makes our clothes look neat and good.

Wash and ironed clothes should be kept nicely in the

cupboard.

Expensive clothes made of wool and silk should be dry-

cleaned. Dry cleaning saves the clothes from damage.

Woollen and silk clothes should be stored with

mothballs or neem leaves. They keep insects away

from these clothes. Mothballs

Let’s
Revise

 Clothes are the fabrics we wear to cover and protect our body.
 They protect us from heat, cold, rain and dust.
 Clothes also protect us from the insect bites.
 Clothes also elaborate our looks and style.
 We wear cotton clothes in summers and woollen clothes in winters.
 A fibre is athread from which clothes are made.
 Natural fibres are the fibres that we obtain from plants and animals.

Points to Remember

Fibres : a tread from which clothes are made.

Uniform : Special clothes worn by school children and professionals

Natural fibres : Fibres obtained from plants and animals

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