Garment tags for intelligent laundering alerts

A garment tag comprising:

• a machine-readable memory storing first garment attribute data that corresponds to a first garment;
• a receiver configured to obtain second garment attribute data that corresponds to a second garment;
• an alert component configured to detect an alert condition based on the first garment attribute data and the second garment attribute data;
• and
• a transmitter component configured to transmit, in response to detecting the alert condition, control data associated with at least one of the first garment attribute data or the second garment attribute data.

A method comprising:

• accessing, by a garment tag associated with a garment, garment attribute data that is associated with the garment;
• detecting, by the garment tag, an alert condition based on the garment attribute data;
• and
• transmit, by the garment tag in response to the alert condition, control data to cause a human-detectable sensory alert.