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Coppertone Girl
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The Coppertone Girl is a famous example of bare bottom imagery in mainstream advertisement. The little blonde girl with pigtails, named Little Miss Coppertone®, became the icon of a long-running ad campaign that was launched in 1959 by Coppertone, a U.S. sunscreen producer.
The drawn girl in the campaign was based on 3-year-old Cheri Brand, the daughter of the commercial artist Joyce Ballantyne Brand. In the ad, she is on a beach and naked except for her pants, which are pulled down at the rear by a black Cocker Spaniel, revealing the untanned skin of her bare bottom, which contrasts to the tanned rest of her body.
Slogans of the ad campaign include:
- "Don't be a Paleface!"
- "Tan - Don't Burn."
[edit] Derived work
In 1965, Jodie Foster, aged 3, made her acting debut as the Coppertone girl in a television commercial.
At the turn of the 21st century, Coppertone revised drawings of the Coppertone Girl so that they would be less revealing in an era of heightened sensitivity regarding pedophilia. Some recent versions show only the girl's lower back, as opposed to her buttocks or wearing a T-shirt, a hat, and holding a bottle of Coppertone while the puppy is shown pulling on her shirt.
The image has been frequently parodied, often using older female models duplicating the pose for a pin-up effect. Jim Carrey's 1995 Rolling Stone cover and Carmen Electra's 2004 Esquire cover are two examples.
[edit] See also
[edit] Links
- Article on the Coppertone girl
- Image of the Coppertone girl
- Example of a revised version where the girl's bottom is unbared (which drops the very point of the scene)
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