# Tarzan costume commercial: '70s

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 22, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarzan-costume-commercial-70s/557974 "2010-10-22T04:05:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarzan-costume-commercial-70s/557974/1 "2010-10-22T04:05:23Z")

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The recent death of [Johnny Sheffield](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Sheffield) reminded me of a commercial I saw on TV just once. I want to say it was around 1975. I don’t remember much about it, other than it depicted a young boy wearing a brown vinyl loincloth with a toy knife that may have been on a belt. Some sort of ‘Tarzan play kit’/‘Tarzan costume’.

Yeah, even as an adolescent I saw something wrong with a kid going out dressed just in a loincloth.

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**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tarzan-costume-commercial-70s/557974/2 "2010-10-23T14:56:18Z")

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It couldn’t have been much before 1975, because I saw the same ad. As I recall it ran on one or more of the “local” (not network-affiliated) channels in the Los Angeles area, during daytime programming. The address for ordering may have even been in Tarzana, and if it wasn’t, it should have been.

I thought the Tarzan loincloth, or whatever they called it, looked neat, but then I was just a little kid. A swimsuit with a dagger! There was definitely a pair of trunks or something under the flap on the screen, though.