This is going to sound really weird, but here goes.
I have a sports bra with removable inserts. The inserts are shaped so that one side contours toward the breast, with a bulge at the bottom similar to a push-up bra.
For months now, I’ve noticed something strange: when I put the bra in the wash, the inserts are positioned correctly. But after drying it with the inserts still inside, they somehow end up completely flipped around. I don’t mean slightly twisted, shifted to the side, or sitting at an angle. I mean fully reversed, as if someone physically took them out and put them back in facing the opposite way, with the contoured side now facing outward.
What makes this so puzzling is that the pocket holding the insert doesn’t seem large enough to allow that kind of movement. I could understand the inserts shifting sideways or bunching up, but a full 180-degree flip seems impossible.
It’s been bothering me enough that I mentioned it to my husband. Oddly, since telling him about it, only one side has started doing it.
The last time I washed it, the same thing happened on that one side. I fixed the insert prior to drying, put the bra out to dry, and when I brought it back in, it had flipped around again.
I keep coming back to the same point: it shouldn’t be physically possible for it to rotate like that because the pocket simply isn’t big enough to allow that movement.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on?