Traditional style tattoo of pin-up legs in fishnet stockings with a red Trouble banner and black-outlined roses on a calf.

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Pin-up legs and roses with Trouble banner

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The tattoo shows a pair of legs in fishnet stockings kicking upwards, with a curved red banner reading TROUBLE across the lower half and two clusters of roses at either side. The bold black outlines are filled with flat red, orange and olive green, with black used for the stockings and petal shadows. The design is centred on the limb, with the fishnet legs rising diagonally from the lower edge of the frame.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The stationmaster wanted the poster for the Brighton revue up by six, and you were still on the ladder at half past five, brush loaded with vermilion, lettering the banner that curled beneath the kicking legs. Mr Pargeter had sent the design back twice. He said there was too much ankle and that passengers would think it was an advert for shoes. You told him the legs were the whole point, and he told you to mind your tongue in front of the ticket girls.

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The legs were the easy part. You had done the fishnet in cross-hatching with a number two sable, every diamond a small black cell, and the roses in clusters at either side, orange petals with olive shadows, which the lad from the carriage works had filled in while you were at your dinner. The banner was the problem. Somebody had already written TROUBLE across the middle in capitals and nobody would admit to it. You suspected the dancers, who had been rehearsing on the empty platform all week, stamping their heels and laughing at the signal box.

At six the poster went up on the north wall between the timetables and the lost property hatch. By seven a man from the company had stood in front of it with his hat in his hands and asked whether the paint was dry. It was not. He gave a short bark of a laugh and pressed his thumb to the T. The red came away on his glove. Then he tipped his hat and walked out towards the Brighton train, and by Monday the thumbprint was the only part of the poster anyone stopped to read.

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