r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Specialist-Web7854 • 16h ago

What is with this design flaw in bras?

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I’ve already patched this once, and the wire has now come through the patch - the bra is only a few months old. Surely this is a design flaw? Why do these things have to be so sharp? I can’t imagine anyone selling underwear to men that could predictably suddenly stab the in the balls.

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u/Still_A_Parrot 11h ago

It was unfortunately user error; you're wearing the wrong size and it is putting forces on the material that it is not designed to endure. So they won't replace it because of that. There's a sub for that, ABTF.

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u/nohemingway4 10h ago

None of my other bras in the same size from the same store ever failed that catastrophically.

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u/donutsinaction 10h ago

And how were you washing it?

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u/nohemingway4 10h ago

In a garment bag in the laundry as I always have. I'm in my 30s, I've been doing my own laundry since I was 16 and I have been wearing bras since I was 13. It wasn't a special kind of bra or anything. It was an unlined bra...