Colour neo-traditional tattoo of a white cartoon cat with a pink bow inside a blue and black ornate frame, on the outer thigh.

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Cartoon white cat in an ornate frame on a thigh

Neo-trad · Thigh · Colour · Photo

A white cartoon cat with blue eyes and a pink bow sits within a blue oval inside a black ornamental scrollwork frame. A pink fabric bow patterned with red hearts and a dotted line trail sit at the lower left of the design. The linework is bold and black, with flat fills of pink, blue and red and a few light highlights, and the design fills the thigh with the frame curling around the leg.

Neo-trad Thigh Cat Mirror Frame Bow Heart Scrollwork Dotted line

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mrs Pimm had been told the mirror was for the seamstress, but she had never once seen the seamstress use it. Every morning, after the shop bell had gone and the tea had gone cold on the cutting table, the white cat climbed the dresser, sat square in front of the oval glass and considered herself at length. Her whiskers needed a brush. Her left ear sat a fraction lower than the right, which she blamed on the draught from the back door.

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The ribbon was the trouble. Mrs Pimm had found it in a basket of offcuts, a length of pink cotton printed with tiny red hearts, and had dragged it up to the mirror in her teeth. Tied under her chin it was perfect. Tied under her chin it made her look like a cat who knew exactly where she was going. Mr Abbott, who came in on Thursdays for his waistcoat fittings, said it was a pity the bow would only last until someone wanted it back.

On Thursday the seamstress unpicked every hem in the shop looking for her scissors, and the ribbon was not in the basket. Mrs Pimm was discovered upstairs, sitting in the middle of the dresser with a heart-printed bow knotted at her throat, staring into the glass. The reflection stared back, lips closed, tail curled, as dignified as anything she had ever seen.

The seamstress laughed, took a photograph, then pinned the ribbon to the frame so it could stop being stolen. Mrs Pimm allowed it. A cat who has been seen properly, she decided, has no further need of a ribbon, though she kept sitting at the mirror every morning in case anybody came in to look.