Possible Clues:

• Design worked on skin
• Military display - skin design
• Needlework! - performed by soldiers!
• Military display on the skin?
• How it may be beaten in a skinny sort of way - at last as well
• It's shabby as well - can you beat that?
• Tit for this as well - can youbeat it?
• Titfer as well - can you beat that?
• Such skinny art! Can you beat that?
• That's skinny - and rather rubbishly as well