The word "drawstrings" is correct and usable in written English.
It is the plural form of the word "drawstring", meaning a string or cord that can be pulled to tighten or close something, such as the waist of a garment or the opening of a bag. Example: "She tied the drawstrings of her hoodie tightly around her neck to keep out the cold wind."
A large perforated can is fastened by drawstrings on the end of the net to retain the sample in relatively undamaged condition.
Thus two chronological drawstrings — one at the beginning of the piece, the other at the end — would pull tight the sackful of themes.
These giant nets can be played out around entire schools of fish, then gathered up with drawstrings, like huge laundry bags.
Sally Victor has Chetnik hats, all sorts of them; John-Frederics have a parachute hat in full descent, with four cute little drawstrings tying under the chin.
Kling modelled a gray one-piece with a plunging V-neck, belted under the bust ($445), and a winsome black strapless suit with drawstrings down the sides that can be tightened at the thigh for a shirred effect ($410).
Alladio wore a yellow marine safety helmet, camouflage pants tied at the ankles with drawstrings, and a tight black athletic shirt emblazoned with the logo "Liquid Militia".
Case in point: approximately thirty-four thousand children's jackets and thirteen thousand five hundred vests are on their way to the warehouse right now, because it's been said that their drawstrings can pose entanglement and strangulation hazards to young children.
And unlike earbud cables, the drawstrings are mercifully tangle free.
They showed wide-legged pants and loose tops in pink and green with a print that looked like the netting of a basketball hoop; technical outerwear pieces including parkas and anoraks with dangling drawstrings; and a series of playful taffeta dresses and pants, like one style in kelly green, in ballooning volumes, and an enormous red tent dress printed with pheasants.
Possibly the drawstrings also functioned as sock garters.
Now there are toning shoes, gut-reducing undergarments, parkas with drawstrings that double as earphones and leggings that are laced with caffeine, supposedly to help slim down your thighs.
