Discuss the various finishing services that can help showcase your brand. Topics include custom neck tag labels, hang tags, garment washes, folding, bagging and even shipment/packaging options.
I will be making my own tags and have the company I am getting my shirts from relable the shirts. Have any of you found out what you need to legally need to have on the shirts? I will have a hang tag that I will put the washing instructions and stuff on but what needs to legally be affixed to the shirts? Anything?
Thanks!
Last edited by howierocket; September 1st, 2006 at 07:53 PM.
Off the top of my head: full legal name of the company and/or an RN, country of origin on the FRONT of the tag, accurate care instructions in clear and legible English (can't over or under prescribe treatment - symbols optional), fibre content (I think)... that might be all actually. I wrote about it a while ago in depth (here) and the FTC have a very good website on the subject.
Most blanks are sold with legally compliant tags (occasionally they're not), and they are generally designed so that if you remove the top tag (with the brand of the blank) and leave the back tag (with the care instructions, etc.), making sure your front tag is the same size or smaller (so the back tag hangs down a little and displays the country of origin - generally placed at the bottom of the back tag so it displays at the front, as legally required)... then you will be legally compliant.
(if you want to transfer the information across onto your tag and have one tag only you can, but if you want to have more company stuff on the tag and not have to worry about legal requirements that is one way to do it)
Though I think having your own labels is kinda cool, doesn't that just open you up to more liability? Cost? Why are you inclined to do this?
It's part of establishing your t-shirts as a brand, basically. Helps people think of the shirt as YOUR shirt, not a Hanes/Gildan/American Apparel/etc. shirt. It won't really make you more liable as long as you do put the legally required info on there, but it does have extra costs involved, and isn't for everyone.
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Originally Posted by error426
IMHO You could save yourself some $ by creating a "proper care" page on your website.
Not really; this kind of info needs to be on the tag by law. You can leave the original tags in there which have the info, but if you remove those simply having a note on the website won't cut it.
Only if you screw up the tag (in which case you could be liable for thousands of dollars in fines, and a total product recall, though it's pretty unlikely)
What do you legally need on the tags? 
(in which case you could be liable for thousands of dollars in fines, and a total product recall, though it's pretty unlikely)
