TATTOOING CRAZE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 71, 20 September 1930, Page 19

TATTOOING CRAZE

A New - Diversion

Smart women in London have found a new diversion—tatooing. Bees and butterflies are the favourite decorations, while pansies, bluebells, and caterpillars make a good second, states a London correspondent. ' Tho designs are tatooed usually just above the knee. A well-known actress recently became the possessor of a floral garter with butterfly buckle. To. hide tho mark of an operation a society woman lias had a wasp tatooed on her body. There are many instances of London hostesses who, rather than suffer a shoulder mole removed, have called in a.tatopist to surround the mole with some selected floral design. So great is the demand for tatooing that Mr. G. Burchett, who for years had boon engaged in placing permanent anchors on sailors' arms, has now opened a parlour in Bond street. Most of his clients, however, are "treated" at their homos. A woman who has a spider lurking in his web on her right knee

told a reporter that tho operation was not at' all painful. Mr. Burchett, in surgeon's white coat, was found about to puff" a humble- bee on tho nape of a woman's neck. All his instruments were being sterilised, and while disinfecting his hands he spoke- of his lifelong practice.

"Many people imagine that once a tatto-mark has been made it is there for over," Mr. Burchett said, "but that is not so. I frequently have <^o remove designs which I myself carried out years ago. There was the case of a young woman who was affianced to a peer. She had his name tatooed on tho under part of her arm. Tho engagement was broken off, and the girl cameto me to have the- iramo erased. It was done without leaving the faintest indication that it had ever-been there. Her gratitude was enthusiastic."