Alexander Proud Ponders on Getting Inked

The days when tattoo art remained the preserve of sailors, hippies and long haired dudes you met in a youth hostel whilst backpacking through South East Asia, are long gone. Alexander Proud notes that some of his conservative middle-class colleagues have, at the very least, already got a detailed, and multi coloured arm sleeve, an intricate design creeping up their neck or a dragon encircling their thigh or bicep.