Colour traditional tattoo of a pin-up woman in a star and stripe outfit holding a top hat, with a banner reading Kiss My American Ass, on a forearm.

Pin-up in stars and stripes with banner

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A pin-up woman in a red, white and blue star and stripe outfit holds a top hat near her head, with her back turned and her face looking over her shoulder. Bold black outlines and flat solid fills in red, blue, yellow and skin tones sit above a gold and black banner with black lettering. The design fills the frame vertically against a plain background.

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The top hat was the first thing you bought, before the paint. Brenna's stall on the quay sold everything a bored sailor could want: lamp oil, postcards of the lighthouse, and a shelf of tin signs nobody had dusted since the Jubilee. You wanted something bigger, though, something that could be seen from the ferry. So you took the hat down and turned it in your hands while the last crossing hooted out past the breakwater.

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The woman came to you in pieces. Her legs first, long and certain, then the stripes that Captain Ferris had argued over for a week because the regatta committee insisted on red, white and blue whether or not the island had ever agreed to them. You painted her on the boathouse wall where the morning sun hit hardest, working from a ladder with a flask of tea wedged in your coat pocket. Nobody asked what she was for. The fishermen just stopped on their way past and tipped their caps at her back.

The banner was the argument. Ferris wanted a line the tourists would laugh at, and the vicar wanted nothing at all, and you settled it by painting the scroll in gold first and leaving the words for last. By the time the letters went on, half the harbour had a bet running on whether the vicar would come down to look. He did, on the Sunday, with his hands in his pockets and his head tilted back.

He stood there a long while. Then he laughed, short and surprised, and lifted his own hat to the painted woman, who was still glancing over her shoulder with that look of someone who knew exactly what she had done to the harbour's peace of mind.

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