Traditional style tattoo on the upper thigh of a cat wearing a flowered hat and red bow tie, framed in a scalloped oval.

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Cat in a hat and bow tie on a thigh

Traditional · Thigh · Mixed · Photo

A cat's face wears a dark hat decorated with pink flowers, green leaves and a red swirl of feathers, with a red and black bow tie below. The cat sits inside an ornate scalloped oval frame that is outlined in dark ink. The tattoo uses bold black outlines with solid fills and soft shading in orange, blue, red and yellow.

Traditional Thigh Cat Hat Flower Bow tie Frame Feather Leaves

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mrs Abernathy had sold forty-two hats before the cat strolled in off Cheapside and sat down on the counter as though it had booked the appointment. Nobody had opened the door for it. The bell over the entrance was still swinging when it started sniffing at the stock.

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It rejected a straw boater with a navy ribbon by pushing it off the shelf with one grey paw. It considered a plain felt for a long moment, then turned its back on it. In the end it stopped before a black velvet bonnet trimmed with pink wax blossoms, a sprig of green leaves and a curl of red feather left over from the Jubilee parade. Mrs Abernathy fitted it to the cat's ears herself, grumbling the whole time about the price of feathers and the state of cats.

A red silk bow tie came next, tied by the chandler's boy, who swore afterwards that he had only been holding the string. The cat stayed the whole winter. It kept the accounts in a ledger with its pawprints in the margins, and it would not let a customer leave with anything they had not first been looked over by its pale, unimpressed eyes.

The Duchess came in January and went out with a plain grey felt, which the cat considered a small personal insult. By spring the cat had moved its cushion into the gilt oval mirror by the window, where it sat with its bow tie straight, waiting for the next customer to come in and be judged.