Drawstring Tool

Help for Hoodies

Lose a drawstring on your favorite hoodie? That’s aggravating. Lose a drawstring on the waist of your favorite sweatpants? Now that’s an invitation for an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction.

Today’s discovery makes it a cinch to re-thread drawstrings. You just insert the tool in the tunnel of the garment, hook the lost drawstring, then gently pull. No more hunting down safety pins or trying to stuff a pencil or knitting needle through a drawstring tunnel.

The Drawstring Tool is the brainchild of Hillary Fehsenfeld (below right) and Debbie Guthrie, two friends who teamed up to develop this patent-pending device. In addition to fishing drawstrings out of adjustable-waist pants, bathing suits and hoodies, the Drawstring Tool makes a handy gadget for unclogging drains and vacuums and retrieving small items that fall in hard-to-reach spaces, such as grates or grills. We’re hooked on this easy problem solver!

— Ann

• The Drawstring tool is 10.5 inches long, and the wire itself is less than 1 cm wide and 8 inches long, with a hook on one end.              
• The handle is just over half an inch wide and 2.5 inches long, with an ergonomic shape.  It is made of plastic, and painted in several styles.