The long-held belief that labeling some products with both metric and pre-metric units is costly came home to me today while I was shopping for running apparel at a local sporting goods store. The washing instructions for a shirt made in Taiwan simply stated, "WASH COLD (30�C)." No Fahrenheit. It struck me that the need for economy sent that shirt to a Texas store without having spent the time and the resources to attach a special label to it for the U.S. market.
