Orlnclothes that last: a guide to caring for clothes and shoes

An independent guide to caring for clothes and shoes. It is not a news outlet, a dry cleaner or a shop, and it has no connection to the former website on this domain.

Archive

Archive

All of the guide's published pages are gathered here in date order. Filtering by topic helps you quickly find what you need: care labels, washing, stains or storage. Every row leads to a live page, and at the bottom there is a note about an old address left on the domain from the previous website.

The archive is not here for record-keeping but for convenience: if all you remember is reading something about moths or the dots on an iron, filtering by topic will get you to the right page in a couple of clicks.

— Editor's view

A row appears in the archive only once the corresponding page is available to readers. The date shows when the page was prepared, and the tag shows its main topic: care labels, washing, stains or storage. The tags match the new pages feed, so filtering works the same way in both places. Addresses from the previous website were not carried over, except one that external links still point to: it now hosts our own reference note. If a page is substantially updated, the date in its entry changes. We do not remove entries silently: if a page is ever merged with another, the archive will keep a note saying where its text has moved.

2026

The domain's old address

This domain previously hosted a different website. Orln has no connection to it and does not restore any of its content. External links still point to one old address, so we have placed our own reference note there on how to read inflation percentages in price news and why taking good care of your things is also a way to save money. That page is newly written, exists only in Russian and contains no material from the previous website. None of its other addresses were carried over.

  • Inflation news (in Russian) — /economy/inflyatsiya-v-orlovskoy-oblasti-v-iyune-sostavila-0-2-s-nachala-goda-2-5/
  • Reference

    Glossary: care symbols, wash cycle, delicate cycle, spin, sorting, fibres, pilling, moths.

  • New

    A feed of the guide's pages with dates and topic tags.

  • Sections

    The guide's four themes: care label symbols, washing and drying, stains, storing clothes and caring for shoes.

  • Collections

    Reading paths: your first laundry on your own, wool and delicate fabrics, shoes through the seasons.

Sources

  • ISO 3758 "Textiles. Care labelling code using symbols" (general provisions)

This advice is general and reflects what we knew when the page was prepared. The best guide for any particular item is its own care label: if the label disagrees with our recommendations, follow the label. For expensive, vintage or complex items, it is wiser to turn to professional cleaning or repair specialists.