Colour tattoo of a curly-haired boy in sunglasses with the words EAT YOUR HEART OUT above, on the upper thigh in a traditional style.

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Sunglasses portrait with Eat your heart out slogan

Traditional · Thigh · Mixed · Photo

A portrait of a curly-haired boy wearing dark sunglasses, with a pink collar and the words EAT YOUR HEART OUT in black lettering above the head. Bold black outlines and flat fills give it a traditional look, with soft shading on the face and hair. A partial drawing of a similar design, with the same lettering, appears at the left edge of the frame.

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Mr Dennis Pargeter had painted fourteen shop fronts along the Marine Parade before anyone asked him for a portrait, so when the Pinnacle Ice Cream Parlour wanted a boy on its hoarding, he resolved to do it properly. He borrowed a photograph of his nephew Colin from a biscuit tin, took it to the back room, and spent three evenings on the sunglasses alone. They had to be dark enough to say something, he told his wife, without saying anything at all.

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The trouble was the slogan. The proprietor, a widow called Mrs Ada Fenwick, wanted words that would keep the Rossi man across the road awake at night. Pargeter suggested Come In Out of the Rain. She said that was for umbrellas. In the end the phrase came from the boy himself, who had been slurping a lemon sherbet on the kerb and announced loudly that the lad in the tall hat could eat his heart out, then looked mortified to have spoken. Pargeter lettered it in black capitals above the curls and painted the collar pink, because pink was the only colour Mrs Fenwick had left in the tin.

The hoarding went up on a Saturday. By Monday the Rossi man had dragged a stepladder to his own window and was whitewashing it, and the boy in the sunglasses was pointing across the road like a magistrate. Mrs Fenwick sold four hundred cornets that week. Colin came round the back on Tuesday with his shoelaces undone and asked whether he could keep the sunglasses, which Pargeter had bought from a jumble sale for sixpence. He said yes. He was not a man who could refuse a boy anything so bold.

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