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The permanent label

The one rule where the package is in the way

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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Packaged, displayed, or folded. Three ways a package hides the thing the rule requires.

Most of this library is about a package that carries a rule

A volume statement, a net weight, a hazard class, an ingredient panel. The container is where the information lives and the rule describes how to put it there.

Part 423 starts from the other side

Care labels must be attached so they can be seen or easily found when the product is offered for sale. The label is on the garment, and the package is a thing that might come between the label and the customer.

And the rule anticipates exactly that

If the product is packaged, displayed, or folded so that customers cannot see or easily find the label, the care information must also appear on the outside of the package or on a hang tag fastened to the product.

Folded is the detail that shows what the rule is worried about

A fold is not packaging. It is a way of presenting a garment that can bury a neck label as effectively as a sealed bag. The rule lists it alongside packaging because the test is whether the customer can find the label, not what kind of enclosure caused the problem.

So the package becomes a remedy for itself

Having obstructed the label, the package is ordered to carry the same information. Which is a sixth distinct relationship between a container and a rule in this library, after the container as the carrier, as the unit, as the labeled element, as irrelevant, and as the regulated article itself.

The alternative remedy keeps the information on the garment

A hang tag fastened to the product. Not permanent, because a hang tag is removed at first wearing, but attached, which means it travels with the garment through the store.

Also means seen or easily found is a two part test

Seen, which is a question about visibility, and easily found, which is a question about where a customer would look. A label that is visible only after unfolding a garment satisfies neither.

And it is the manufacturer and importer who must attach it

The obligation sits upstream of the retailer. A shop that folds a garment badly has not violated this paragraph; the party who packaged or displayed it in a way that hides the label has the duty to duplicate the information.

For a notions shelf this is all context and nothing more

No container in this group is subject to that paragraph. The paragraph is here because it is the only place in this library where a federal rule treats a package as an obstacle rather than as a surface.

References

16 CFR 423.1(a): "Care label means a permanent label or tag, containing regular care information and instructions, that is attached or affixed in such a manner that it will not become separated from the product and will remain legible during the useful life of the product." And 16 CFR 423.6(a): "Manufacturers and importers must attach care labels so that they can be seen or easily found when the product is offered for sale to consumers. If the product is packaged, displayed, or folded so that customers cannot see or easily find the label, the care information must also appear on the outside of the package or on a hang tag fastened to the product." law.cornell.edu
Written from 16 CFR part 423 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. Part 423 is the Care Labeling Rule and it governs the permanent care label on textile wearing apparel and certain piece goods; it does not govern notions, and nothing here says it does. Nothing here states what temperature any particular notion tolerates, what instruction any garment may carry, or that any container is suitable for textile storage in any regulated sense. This shelf is shared identically by nine groups and this property is where it is enumerated in full.