Maybe it's a dumb question but I've got a couple pairs of basketball shorts with drawstrings that have somehow gotten pulled out too far and made the shorts too tight, how do you get them back in or loosened?
2007-01-28 14:42:09 · 15 answers · asked by b 3 in Beauty & Style ➔ Fashion & Accessories
I attach a small safety pin to the end, and insert it into hole. Then I scrunch the fabric back and push the safety pin up, little by little until it gets to the end.
2007-01-28 14:46:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Do you have a safety pin? If not, get some next time you are out shopping--not the really tiny or huge ones. I'm sure they have them tucked away somewhere in Rite Aid or Walgreen's, or go to the sewing department at Wal-Mart or Jo-Ann Fabrics. Open the safety pin and stick a piece of the drawstring onto the pointy part of the pin, close the pin, stick the pin into the hole of the shorts, and push the pin and fabric with your fingers until you've weaved/worked the pin and drawstring all the way around the waist band. Good luck.
2007-01-28 14:51:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am not sure i understand the question but i can help you get the drawstring back in if it has fallen out. If the shorts are too tight, it seems like you would just feed the drawstring back in gradually from one side and pull on the waistband to loosen it. If the drawstring is completely out of the shorts, attach a safety pin to the end of it, feed that end into one of the holes, and gradually feed it around the inside of the waistband until you can feed it out the other hole. Then just remove the safety pin. Hope this helps! Best wishes!
2007-01-28 14:50:27 · answer #3 · answered by fair blue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a large safety pin and pin it to one end of the drawstring, and then insert that into the shorts (in the space where the drawstring normally goes). Then push the safety pin along so it threads through the entire shorts, and pull it out the other end!
A large paper clip works in a pinch too. Just something you can attach the string to and then push it through easily.
2007-01-28 14:48:05 · answer #4 · answered by Lily 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a wire hanger put the drawstring on the end of it make sure it is secured and go through the hole till you reach the other end unsure the drawstring hold both end of the drawstring together and pull out the hanger and now you have your shorts back. good luck.
2007-01-28 15:03:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Feed the end of the drawstring in as much as you can, then use a safety pin to push it along from outside the shorts... it's hard to describe in words without being able to show you. It takes a little patience, but I've done it successfully.
2007-01-28 14:47:12 · answer #6 · answered by GreenIYD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have to be male.... ok here we go, ready???Pull the string completely out, hook a large safety pin on the string, now,put the safety pin in the hole the string came out of & feed it through by bunching in up slowly, all the way around till the safety pin comes out the other hole, now, tie these 2 ends together BEFORE you launder, & we wont have this problem agian!!
2007-01-28 14:54:20 · answer #7 · answered by Becky H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poke a safety pin through one end of the drawstring, work it through by scrunching the waistband together, holding the safety pin in place, then straightening out the waistband again. Doing this should move it though until it goes all the way around.
2016-03-29 07:20:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a safety pin and pin it to the end of string and thread it back threw your shorts
2007-01-28 14:47:08 · answer #9 · answered by Iwannaknow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use a clothes pin.....stick the clothes pin into one end of the string and stick it into the hole, carefully wiggle it through the pants until u reach the other end where the strings met and tie up at.
2007-01-28 14:47:07 · answer #10 · answered by miss sweethang 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋