Something a little light-hearted today:
On a set of striped sheets, which way should the stripes be aligned--vertically, from the foot to the head of the bed? Or horizontally, from side-to-side?
This morning I was putting a brand new set of sheets on our bed and, like every other set with stripes I have ever had, I started out putting the fitted sheet on "vertically". And discovered I couldn't make it fit, despite being the right size for the bed. So I called in Jill.
She discovered that the manufacturer had actually attached labels to the sheet, indicating the sides. I have never run across that before, so I didn't even think to look for them...and it turned out the stripes are intended to run "horizontally".
I can only think that they had to label the sides because they were going against the standard alignment.
Stripes should go from head to foot! Across would feel wrong.
ReplyDeleteOn this subject, I find it annoying that manufacturers feel obliged to put elastic all the way around a fitted sheet. Fitted sheets were always a challenge to fold: ones with elastic at the corners or across the ends were more difficult; elastic all the way around you might as well just wad them up in a ball. With elastic across the ends you also had a clue as to which way the sheets went on the bed.