Sometimes it don't be like that, but sometimes it do.
Ya, I suspect those 'false drawstrings' are purely for fashion...Also, what is up with all these pajama pants with false drawstrings? Makes no sense to me to have strings to tie up that don't actually do anything except get in the way. I can't decide whether to leave them alone until I know if I'm going to need to find a way to redeploy them if I do actually lose weight or just cut them off and get rid of them.
As the audio tech nerd for my church I have profound misgivings about all this microphone dropping lately. It is really hard on the equipment.