The Care Label Is a Promise

Nobody reads a care label for pleasure. But read closely, ours is a fairly honest account of how a garment was actually built — every instruction traces back to a specific fabric or finishing decision made before the piece ever reached you.

Why 30°C, Gentle Cycle

Almost everything we make calls for a 30°C (about 86°F), gentle-cycle wash. That's not a conservative default — it's a direct consequence of garment-dyeing and soft-washing pieces like the Lifestyle Tee before they ship. Garment-dyed fabric is dyed after the piece is sewn, which gives it that soft, slightly irregular tonal finish we want, but it also means the dye sits closer to the fiber surface than a yarn-dyed fabric. A hot, aggressive wash cycle would strip that finish faster than we're willing to let happen.

No Bleach, Printed Pieces Especially

Every printed piece in our line — the graphic tees, the golf towel, the Inhale/Exhale series — carries a "do not bleach, iron at low temperature, avoid ironing directly on the print" instruction. Screen printing sits on top of the fabric rather than in it, and heat is the thing that degrades it fastest. That instruction is quite literally protecting the design you bought the shirt for.

Tumble Dry Low Is a Fit Instruction, Not a Suggestion

High heat is the single fastest way to relax the elastane in a piece like the Premium Tank Top or shrink a heavyweight cotton fleece out of true. "Tumble dry low" on our labels isn't boilerplate — it's the specific instruction that keeps a 15.6 oz. sweatpant at the measurements it was cut to instead of shrinking a size after three trips through a hot dryer.

A Promise, Not a Warning

We'd rather write a care label that asks a little more of you at laundry day than one that lets a garment fall apart quietly and calls it normal wear. Follow the label, and a Yudae piece is built to still look like itself two years in.