The 94 cent numbers were "entirely shadowless" - a term, perhaps, that referred to the dark patches you'd get when stockings weren't entirely tight, and formed small bunched-up pockets.

"Smoketone and Gun Gray" is the best name for a noir novel never written.

Ponder this: who were those women? Think there's a chance we could ever learn their names, what they did, what happened to them, whether their grandchildren still walk the earth, and whether they know Grandma modeled her gams for America in 1934?