name labels for clothes - I need recommendations please.

[ChilloHippi]

DS is starting school in the New Year so everything needs to be labelled (to be honest it should have been done before now for nursery ).
I have nightmare images of me trying to sew in those little white labels with your name in red letters as that's all that existed when I was little, but I know there is more out there now.
I'd like labels that don't go hard or fall off in the wash or tumble drier. What do you all recommend?

Stuck on You - I love these labels (and I will declare my interest, I am a Stuck on You agent). They do traditional rectangular labels, and "clothing dots" round labels, both iron-on. They have little icons that you can choose as well, to make it easier for your DS to recognise his clothes, particularly if there are other boys with his name. They also do funky shoe labels.

My favourite labels are the stick-on vinyl ones which really do go through the dishwasher without coming off, I uses little plastic boxes in DD's lunchbox rather than cling film, all with her name on.

I use Cash's style sew-in ones like you remember (but I got them from here because they do them in dd-favoured pink at no extra cost )

nothing else stays on as well or comes out as neatly for handing down

they are a pain to do but once you have your hand in you can do them in front of the tv.

After years of laboriously sewing in those fiddly little labels I've started using laundry markers on the inside collar of all ds's shirts, tshirts etc. Not brilliant for trousers but you can write on the label instead.

www.LabelLighthouse.com has great peel and stick labels for clothing. No ironing or sewing needed. They also work on toys and other stuff.

Just right on the label.

thanks for all the suggestions. I shall look into it all. I want to make the labels obvious to I'm not either losing stuff or having to trawl through tons of lost property, so I want to do more than write on the label.

I use Easy2name iron on ones they are brill and don't come off.
I have only needed to buy one pack for each child since there are plenty in the packs!
(I think I must have ordered 1,000 or something in a brief fleeting ' I'm going to be very efficient' moment)

thanks fruitshoot They sound like they are nice and easy to do. I shall google them and have a look.