Realistic colour tattoo of a red high-top trainer with white laces and a blue star patch, shown on an ankle in three photographs.

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Red high-top sneaker tattoo on an ankle

Realism · Ankle · Colour · Photo

Three photographs in one collage show a realistic tattoo of a red high-top trainer with white laces, eyelets and a blue star logo on a white circular patch, wrapped around an ankle and foot. The shading gives the canvas folds, stitching and laces a three-dimensional look, with subtle highlights and darker red tones. The front, side and angled views fill the frame, with the leg and skin visible around the design on a dark surface.

Realism Ankle Sneaker Shoe Lace Star

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The red boots had cost three weeks of Ivy's Saturday money, and she had them laced before the kettle boiled, criss-crossing every pair of eyelets the way her mother had shown her, so the canvas drew up snug over her ankle. Nobody on Harrowby Row owned boots like that. Boots were for the pit and for chapel. These were for running, and Ivy meant to be the fastest girl from the colliery end to the top of Miner's Lane before the two o'clock hooter had finished sounding.

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Her mother was at the sink with her sleeves rolled, not turning round. "Your dad's not going to notice a pair of shoes, love. He'll notice the coal on the step." Ivy said she would scrub the step, and then she was out of the door and away, the white star on the patch by her heel flashing as she went. Dust from the tips hung over the road like weather. She spat on a rag at the lamp-room gate and rubbed at the star until the blue came up clean, then gave up and let the grime stay where it wanted.

The men were already at the gate when she got there, but they were standing still, not walking, and nobody was calling out the way they usually did. Mr Pryce from the next street was sitting on an upturned crate with his cap in both hands. Ivy counted the windows on the winding house the way she counted steps, one, two, three, and on the fourth her father came through the gate with his lamp still lit and his face black except for the white rings round his eyes.

He didn't say anything. He saw her lace had come loose on the left boot and went down on one knee in the road, pulling the cord tight, crossing it over and under, working it up towards the top eyelet the way she had done it herself that morning. "Double knot," he said, "or you'll lose a shoe down the cage." Then he tied it, and stayed there a moment longer than he needed to, his hand resting on the red canvas over her ankle as if it were something he had been sent to carry home.