Traditional style tattoo on the thigh of a red rose with green leaves and a tan banner reading None of your business.

Rose and banner reading None of your business

Traditional · Thigh · Colour · Photo

A red rose with dark outlines and green leaves sits on the outer thigh, partly wrapped by a tan ribbon banner with black lettering that reads None of your business. The rose uses solid colour with shaded petal edges, and the leaves and banner have bold black outlines. Fine dotted shading surrounds the rose and banner against the skin, and the image is a close, well-lit crop of the tattoo.

Traditional Lettering Thigh Rose Leaves Banner Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit yourself down on that creel, and mind the tar on your coat. Everybody in Gullhaven knows the tale of Dorothy Vane and her rose, though not one of them will say it to her face, for she still runs the post office and still reads every postcard before it leaves the counter.

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The trouble started the summer the herring failed. Men came through her door asking after the lifeboat fund, widows asked who had been seen at the Ferry Inn, and the vicar wanted to know why she had posted a parcel to Bristol with no return address. Every time, Dorothy looked over her spectacles and said the same four words, dry as a ship's biscuit: none of your business. It got so the words came out of her before the question was finished. So in October she took the ferry to Plymouth, sat in a back room with a sailor's buzzing needle, and came home with a red rose on her thigh and a tan ribbon wound round it, the lettering bold as a shop sign.

Then came the February gale that took the north pier. Her nephew Tom was out on the Mary Ellen, and the whole harbour gathered on the slipway asking her if she'd had word, if she'd been told, if she was going to faint. She stood very straight in her good coat and said nothing at all, which was the first time anyone had seen her do that. Next morning the Mary Ellen came round the point with Tom at the tiller, the crowd turned to look at her, and she only tapped her skirt where the ribbon lay under the wool and said, "Well, that's none of your business either."

They repainted the post office sign that spring. Dorothy kept the old board, though, and nailed it above the stove, where it still hangs with a red rose in one corner and, beneath it, the words she never tired of saying.