Terms of use

Read freely, quote with attribution, and check the date before relying on a rule or a price.

Articles

The text on this site belongs to Seam & Sole. You may quote passages with a link to the article. Reproducing whole articles needs the editors' permission; write to us.

Images

Images credited to an official page belong to their owners and are shown to illustrate what that page says; the credit links to the page. Images made for an article are labeled as such: they are staged illustrations, not product photos, and may not be presented as pictures of real products.

Quoted sources

Quotations from brands, standards bodies and regulators belong to their authors and are reproduced for the purpose of explaining them, with a link to the source.

No warranty

Articles describe what official sources said on the date shown. Rules, programs, sizes, prices and availability change. Nothing here is legal advice; before relying on a rule, check the source the article links to.