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In the begining, phasers just sort of hung there on the crew members hip until they reached for it. Granted, there were times when they wore belts with holsters for the weapons, but sometimes the phasers just dangled there with no visible means of support... How did that work? What was the theory and how did the prop department pull it off?
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Here's a much clearer view - it appears to be velcro:
Edit to add (post question-edit): Before posting this answer, I had also thought it was supposed to be some sort of magnetic system (like the other answers mention), but couldn't find any evidence. It may have made it into one TOS episode, as I do not have any technical manuals or novels, but I cannot remember for sure. Instead I found the above image, where the patch has the same fuzzy quality that velcro has. |
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I don't have it any longer, but I once had an 'official' Star Fleet cadet manual that had Phaser and Communicator schematics. It pointed to the handle of the type II Phaser and said 'magnetic adhesion to body', which I took to mean 'uniform'. While Velcro was used on the set (presumably because they fell off to easily with magnets), the 'tech' was described as magnetic. |
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The Star Fleet Technical Manual refers to a "magnatomic adhesion area". The manual isn't canon (though illustrations from it have been used in movies), and I don't recall the word "magnatomic" ever being used in any series or movie. Apparently "magnatomic adhesion" looks and sounds like velcro. |
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