Baby Tattoo Onesie
Baby Tattoo Onesie
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What it is
A plain black bodysuit with printed tattoo sleeves stitched onto it
The tattoo is not on the baby and it is not printed on the body of the garment. From roughly the bicep down, each sleeve is a separate panel of sheer, skin-tone mesh with tattoo artwork printed on it, joined to a plain black long-sleeve bodysuit.
That join is the whole trick. At arm's length the printed mesh reads as a full sleeve of ink. Up close it is obviously a printed sleeve, because you can see the mesh and the seam where the two fabrics meet.
The artwork on the sleeve
Traditional American flash, printed in color across the whole mesh panel: flames, a swallow, banner lettering, a skull in a top hat, a pin-up figure. Both sleeves carry the same style of artwork. It is a general flash design rather than any named artist's work or licensed character.
The print runs edge to edge on the panel and is finished with a turned cuff at the wrist.
What we can tell you about the fabric, and what we cannot
Two different materials are in this garment and you can see both in the photographs. The body is an opaque black knit. The sleeve panels are a sheer, stretchy, skin-tone mesh carrying the print.
What we do not hold. We have no fiber content statement from the supplier for either fabric, and no care instructions. So this page states neither. Nothing about fiber, weight, stretch, wash behavior or how the print holds up should be read into the title, the size options or the photographs, because we have not been given any of it and we are not going to guess at it on an infant garment.
Why we are saying it out loud. On children's clothing, fiber content is a labeling matter rather than a marketing flourish. A previous version of this page named a single fiber for the whole garment. The photographs do not support that for the sleeve panels, so we took it off rather than leave it standing.
How it goes on and comes off
The neck is an envelope, or lap-shoulder, opening: the two shoulder panels cross over each other so the neck stretches wide and comes down over the head, then settles back.
The crotch closes with three metal snaps in a row, which is what lets you change a diaper without taking the whole garment off.
Sizes, and what we do not know about them
It comes in one color, black, in three age bands: 4-6 months, 7-9 months and 13-18 months. There is a gap between the second and third band, so there is no size sitting at roughly 10 to 12 months.
There is no measurement chart. An earlier version of this page linked to one. That link had already expired and had stopped loading, and we hold no measured garment dimensions to put in its place, so the chart is gone rather than replaced with something invented.
What we can pass on is the pattern in our own reviews: buyers who commented on fit told us it ran small for their child, and one told us it did not fit at all. Age-band sizing on imported infant clothing tends to run small. If your baby is at the top of an age band, the next band up is the safer pick.
This is a daytime bodysuit
It is not sleepwear and it should not be used in place of sleepwear. Buy it for the photographs, the visit to the grandparents, the first birthday, the band t-shirt joke that a baby is too young to be in on. That is the job it does.
Small human, borrowed ink
A black bodysuit that stops being a black bodysuit at the elbow. It comes off in a few seconds and the tattoos come off with it, which is the part every parent who has considered a real one appreciates most.
