Bratabase wants me to confirm the measurements for a bra with stretchy wires and flexible cups.
So a while ago I added a bra to my collection whose cups are only 5.25" wide. However, this bra's wires are extremely flexible. It was a total surprise to me. When I put on the bra, the wires stretched so much that the cups were like 6" wide. When I took off the bra, the wires went immediately back to being their regular width and the cups went back to being 5.25" wide. Then, when I stretched the wires with my hands, I found that the wires could stretch even more than I thought they could have and the cups stretched to 7" wide! When I put the bra back down on the table the cupe went back to being 5.25" wide. The bra is just ever so slightly broad wired for me, but only because the wires stretch so much! But the true width of cups are only 5.25". Bratabase wants me to confirm that it is indeed too broad wired for me and the system doesn't take into account that some bras have extremely stretchy wires.
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Sometimes my measurement disagree and I get that warning, but I just re-measure and confirm it and . . . whatever. Its just saying that your measurement is different from others, but that doesnt necessarily mean you are wrong. it could be others were wrong or the company has really bad consistency.
When asked to confirm a measurement you can just confirm that that is indeed the real measurement. There's a button to do just that.
It is natural to distrust that a smaller cup can be 7" wide. For most bras it could very well be a mistake. I think it is the right thing to do to ask for confirmation on this entry.
Even after confirming, other people will see the number and say that Bratabase is wrong for listing a bra that size to have such wide wires (and will go out and loud on how we have wrong data), for which I'd recommend providing photo evidence, not to convince the system, but to back your claim to anybody else in the future that will think that a 7" wide wire is wrong.
After all, I'd recommend putting the measurement at rest. Many bras stretch when wearing, this amount is definitely not normal but in all others where there is some bending, the measurements entered are always at rest. Mention in your review that it can stretch to 7" so others can be aware.