GR translation: run clear back up over his ass

[Becky Lindroos]

it means -     the pleats go all the way back up over his butt. 

Bekah


> On Jan 27, 2016, at 12:13 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> V710.9-20, P724.12-24   He does take a guest: Seaman Bodine, who has caused to be brought him from the Panama Canal Zone (where the lock workers wear them as a uniform, in amazing tropical-parrot combinations of yellow, green, lavender, vermilion) a zoot suit of unbelievable proportions—the pointed lapels have to be reinforced with coat-hanger stays because they extend so far outboard of the rest of the suit—underneath his purple-on-purple satin shirt the natty tar is actually wearing a corset, squeezing his waist in to a sylphlike 42 inches to allow for the drastic suppression of the jacket, which then falls to Bodine’s knees quintuple-vented in yards of kilt-style pleats that run clear back up over his ass. The pants are belted under his armpits and pegged down to something like ten inches, so he has to use hidden zippers to get his feet through.
> 
> What does "run clear back up over his ass" mean?

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