perfect 36

[Barbara Need]

>>From 1921:
>
><<Then there was Lieutenant Farris, he of the perfect 36 figure ....>>
>
>-- http://www.kancoll.org/books/dienst/353-chap31.html
>
>>From 1924:
>
><<George CLAUSEN - Tanglefoot - They call him perfect Thirty six, for he
>has that athletic figure.>>
>
>-- http://www.iltrails.org/jackson/1924_yearbook_carbondale.htm
>
>I would casually speculate that this is just generalized on the basis
>"perfect 36" = "perfect figure" (originally referring to a woman's bust
>circumference).
>
>-- Doug Wilson

Let's see if I can remember this correctly. There is a B.C. strip in
which the Fat Broad describes herself as a perfect 36: 36-36-36.

Barbara Need
UChicago--Linguistics