GR translation: run clear back up over his ass

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Becky.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > 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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