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The Company: Various



The Product: Clothing



The Rude Awakening: You buy a great-looking new article of clothing. An hour or so after you begin wearing it, you notice that you are starting to feel an intense itching. You reach to scratch the itch and hear a crackling noise.



The Design Flaw: Clothing labels should not be constructed from a crackling blend of plastic, cardboard, and/or stainless steel. Some of the worst offenders are the ladies undergarments. Why did it take the men's undergarment manufacturers to come up with the idea of stamping the label into the cloth of the garment instead of sewing on a label?



"What's the problem?" some people ask. "Just cut the label out." Well, it wouldn't be a problem if that idea actually worked. But when you just trim the lable, the raw edge left behind cuts even worse than the orginal label. If you try to pick the remains of the label out of the stitching, you end up with a hole in the seam. So now you need to make a repair to a brand-new article of clothing!