How best to label child's clothing?

[MDM]

Such an exciting topic for a Saturday night! How my life has changed.

Anyway, enough lamenting. Looking for your top tips on labeling? Sew or iron? Any recommended suppliers of labels?

I bought a pack of personalised labels from an online company called easy2name and they're brilliant, you stick them on the washing instructions
label and they go through the washing machine and tumble drier fine. HTH

Without doubt the best method is a laundry marker pen . Write neatly on the label then again some where else. Sew on /iron on labels are easily removed by others and labeled as their own

I've always found sew on the best by far. Tried some iron on once but for some reason they come off sometimes after too many times through the wash/tumble drier, but then you actually can't get them off when you want to pass the clothes on

I use the iron on ones, and then a permanent marker with just our surname on the washing instructions label because I want to pass some clothes down to dc2!

I use a mix of easy2name fab and funky iron on and stick on labels plus a laundry marker when I havent had a chance to get the iron out. There is a mumsnet discount for easy2name products

these are brilliant. No sewing and they last forever

Laundry marker pen. Definitely. Much less faff, nothing to fall off or come unstitched, takes approx 5 seconds to label each garment, cheap as chips. What's not to like?

these are brilliant. No sewing and they last forever

Oooh, these look good. How do they attach-it's difficult to see from the picture!? Is it like a small security tag you'd get in a shop??

Those look fab bruffin. I use sew on tapes (until now !) as I find laundry pen fades and iron on tapes peel off.

There is a video on the site of how to do it.

video here

I use a sharpie on the back of the collar. It doesnt seem to fade - two years of wearing on I am passing them to younger DS still visible.

That's very clever-I am definitely going to order those!

I can't see the video on the iPad!

Could you quickly explain how they fix on please?

Marking my place, having a rock n roll Saturday night too

Sharpies all the way. Nothing shifts that ink!

its a plastic pin that goes through the material and label and another piece that goes on top. The pin part above the surface then breaks off so leaves a smooth finish. I always put them on the washing instructions rather than the material itself.

Thanks. I suppose that if someone really wanted something that was labelled in that way they'd just have to snip the care label off which is what's been happening in our school.

Ok, so my iron on name label and laundry marker care label system will have to continue because I'm too lazy to sew in labels to all of both ds's items of uniform

black permanent marker pen is pretty permanent, can write on the label or direct onto fabric.
I like sew on labels because they make a hanging loop, but I often black marker it somewhere else.

Thanks Bruffin, will check those out.

What's a Sharpie? Some kind of super-permanent pen?

sharpie is the make of permanent marker pens - they also do a laundry marker

Perfect! Thanks all, great thread!