tattoo-mad in the 1920s

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

It's not a 21st century trend after all! Fascinating photos reveal tattoo-mad men and women with HEAD-TO-TOE inkings from as early as the 1920s

A new book called 100 Years of Tattoos features tattooed men and women across the decades. It includes flapper girls, US serviceman and tattooed world record breaker Janet 'Rusty' Skuse. (Pictured clockwise from left: British tattoo addict Janet 'Rusty' Skuse, an unknown woman in the late 1920s, Cindy Ray - who was one of the first famous Australian tattooed pin up girls, and a man at a gallery opening in the 1970s).