Mudflap girl

Mudflap girl image

The mudflap girl is an iconic silhouette of a woman with an hourglass body shape, sitting, leaning back on her hands, with her hair being blown in the wind. The icon is typically found on mudflaps, clothing, and other items associated with trucking in the United States.^[1] The image is sometimes also known as trucker girl, trucker lady or seated lady.

This famous design was created in the 1970s by Bill Zinda of Wiz Enterprises in Long Beach, California, to promote his line of truck and auto accessories. It was modeled on Leta Laroe, a famous exotic dancer at the time.^[2][3]

The Mudflap Girl is a registered trademark in the United States.^[4][5]

Parody

• As a parody, Wyoming Libraries use a mudflap girl holding a book, in an effort to attract readers.^[6][7][8]

• In another parody the feminist blog Feministing uses a version depicting the mudflap girl holding up her middle finger as an ironic logo.

• In the webcomic Commissioned, the Mudflap Girls appear as tattoos.^[9]

• In issue #4 of the Dreamwave Productions comic Transformers: The War Within, Optimus Prime is portrayed as having a mudflap with the silhouette of Elita One.^[10]

• In Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult, Jane Spencer is shown driving a semi with a mudflap boy silhouette.

• At McMurdo Station, Antarctica, the mudflap girl is depicted on a utility vehicle, but wearing more appropriate attire for Antarctic environment.

See also

• Kappa (company) – reclining silhouette logo

References

1. ^ Trebay, Guy. Front Row; Burly Girl Power. The New York Times. 19 August 2003.
2. ^ “Mud Flap Girl”, simonroy.blogspot.com, April 16, 2007
3. ^ What I Learned About Truck Mud Flaps. Boosh News. 28 March 2010.
4. ^ "Trademark Registration Number 3742024". United States Patent and Trademark Office. http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4008:fltb4e.4.1. Retrieved August 30, 2010. 
5. ^ "Trademark Registration Number 3742025". United States Patent and Trademark Office. http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4008:fltb4e.5.1. Retrieved August 30, 2010. 
6. ^ The Wyoming Libraries Campaign
7. ^ “Library's Mudflap Girl Campaign Turns Heads”, by Matt Joyce (AP), Casper Star-Tribune, March 23, 2009.
8. ^ "Wyoming Libraries Mudflap Girl bookmark". Wyoming Libraries. http://wyominglibraries.org/images/mudflap-girl-bookmark.jpg. Retrieved August 30, 2010. 
9. ^ "Commisioned: "Butt Flap Girls"". http://www.commissionedcomic.com/?p=3700. 
10. ^ [1]

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