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Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2010Vachss: hands
Hello: What kind of hands are these? BTW, there's no one with a black skin in the car. Stocking "support system" or just patterns with no supporting capability?" --- [Strega's disrobing in the car for the P.I. Burke to demonstrate she's not wired -- and more.] Her panties were a tiny black wisp, the dark stockings held up by black hands across her thighs. Andrew Vachss, Strega, p. 123 ---- -- Thanks. Marius Hancu > Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Her panties were a tiny black wisp, the dark stockings held up by > black hands across her thighs. Marius, are you sure it's not "bands"? They sound like stay-ups to me. Regards Jonathan >Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >Andrew Vachss, Strega, p. 123 >---- A poetic description of a suspender-belt, I'd say.  SignatureKaty Jennison spamtrap: remove the first two letters after the @ > >What kind of hands are these? BTW, there's no one with a black skin in > >the car. Stocking "support system" or just patterns with no supporting [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > A poetic description of a suspender-belt, I'd say. Still used in 1970s-80s? Just not sure of the chronology of the "technology":-) BTW, the version at Google Books confirms "hands." Thank you all. Marius Hancu >> >What kind of hands are these? BTW, there's no one with a black skin in >> >the car. Stocking "support system" or just patterns with no supporting [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >Still used in 1970s-80s? Just not sure of the chronology of the >"technology":-) Oh, absolutely. And today. Google "suspender belt". SignatureKaty Jennison spamtrap: remove the first two letters after the @ > >> >What kind of hands are these? BTW, there's no one with a black > skin in >> >the car. Stocking "support system" or just patterns with [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > Oh, absolutely. And today. Google "suspender belt". But probably not while you're at work... -- > > >What kind of hands are these? BTW, there's no one with a black skin in > > >the car. Stocking "support system" or just patterns with no supporting [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Still used in 1970s-80s? Just not sure of the chronology of the > "technology":-) I'd guess they're still used now by women who intend to disturb the equilibrium of male private investigators--and, more frequently, by women in male imaginations. > BTW, the version at Google Books confirms "hands." I feel sure it's a typo. -- Jerry Friedman >> > >What kind of hands are these? BTW, there's no one with a black skin in >> > >the car. Stocking "support system" or just patterns with no supporting [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >equilibrium of male private investigators--and, more frequently, by >women in male imaginations. I used to prefer them because if you get a ladder in stockings you only lose one leg, rather than a pair. I still prefer them but tend to wear trousers. SignatureWet Yorks via Watford, London, York and Cambridge >BTW, the version at Google Books confirms "hands." Confirms that that's what's printed - not that it's right! SignatureIan D >>> What kind of hands are these? BTW, there's no one with a black skin in >>> the car. Stocking "support system" or just patterns with no supporting [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Thank you all. > Marius Hancu That can't be right. It must refer to the tops of those stockings that stay up by themselves (in theory, anyway) with the help of a band of extra elastic at their tops. Like these: http://www.stockingstore.com/thigh-highs-holdups-kneehighs-s/27.htm I don't think books are edited nearly as well as they use to be, but surely the editor would have realized that she can't be going around holding up her stockings with her hands! SignatureCheryl > >>> What kind of hands are these? BTW, there's no one with a black skin in > >>> the car. Stocking "support system" or just patterns with no supporting [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > http://www.stockingstore.com/thigh-highs-holdups-kneehighs-s/27.htm I think that's a very probable solution. Perhaps she had patterned some _black hands_ with the fingers downwards in those _elastic bands_, as to retain the stockings from falling down, in a sexy design:-) > I don't think books are edited nearly as well as they use to be, but > surely the editor would have realized that she can't be going around > holding up her stockings with her hands! Thanks. Marius Hancu >BTW, the version at Google Books confirms "hands." But it says "wide black hands." That doesn't fit too well with the possible figurative senses. I agree with the others that it must be a typo. ¬R Blather, Rinse, Repeat. http://users.bestweb.net/~notr/telecom.html >Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >Andrew Vachss, Strega, p. 123 >---- My immediate thought is that there is a typo in the original: "hands" should be "bands". If "hands" is correct it might be a metaphorical use to refer to the straps of a suspender belt. Or maybe something else. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) Peter Duncanson: > My immediate thought is that there is a typo in the original: "hands" > should be "bands". Could be, certainly. Just last night I noticed that a considerable number of the copies of the Articles of Association on the Web have "bath" in place of "hath". > If "hands" is correct it might be a metaphorical use to refer to the > straps of a suspender belt. That's what I first assumed. SignatureMark Brader, Toronto "... people are *always* doing stuff ... msb@vex.net that I wish were typos" --Marcy Thompson My text in this article is in the public domain. >Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >Andrew Vachss, Strega, p. 123 >---- Typo for "bands"? SignatureIan D >> Hello: >> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Typo for "bands"? Could it be something like this? http://declubz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/helping-hand-bras.jpg SignatureJames > Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Andrew Vachss, Strega, p. 123 No doubt you know, or the narrator explains, that "strega" is Italian for "witch"? Just making sure. -- Jerry Friedman > > What kind of hands are these? BTW, there's no one with a black skin in > > the car. Stocking "support system" or just patterns with no supporting [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > No doubt you know, or the narrator explains, that "strega" is Italian > for "witch"? Just making sure. Thanks. Vachss as much as says it. 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