fan-tastic! ..... and those vintage photos are unbelievable!
so I checked it out myself, searching for Victorian Freak Shows - and some of the first images that popped up were of full-body tattoos - these days, that is not unusual at all. On a plane from Mexico to Spain a few years ago, a female was not only completely covered in tats, she also had metal spike implants in her scull! How she got through security is beyond me ......