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Thursday Oct 13, 2005
Can You Date Me By My Tat?... Comments by Jessica Lund
Often lead by celebrities, tattoo styles have shifts and trends like any other high fashion item. Since tattoos last forever though, it will be interesting to see if we will be able to date people by their choices. Imagine your granddaughter looking at your tribal tat and saying, “geeze, grammaw, you musta got that in the 90’s! You are So old!”
This isn’t so different from the way that WW1 and WW2 tattoos date their wearers, but for our generation, it is style, rather than historical events that move our choice of style.
As tattoo trends come and go, the ink remains. One wonders if the custom tats that are so hip at the moment will look like dinosaurs in ten years when everyone starts getting their zip code tats inked on (oh, wait a sec, zip code tats are already popular). Some other trend then, something we haven’t even thought of yet.
To try to guess someone’s age, we won’t need to ask them when they graduated from high school, we just need to take a look at the Celtic armband- huh, he’s 42. He looked so much older…
... Jessica Lund
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