Another De-Inking

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J.Crew removes tattoos fairly often, it seems. "I met a J.Crew model once on a nude beach in Hawaii," writes a tipster whose life is obviously much more exciting than ours. "He was covered in tattoos, but in his catalog, there were no tattoos and his skin was lightened to look whiter and less Hawaiian." [Racked Inbox; Previously]