Tell me anything you know as far as the costumes that are used in the Fruit of the Loom commercials. What are they made of? How does the wearer get in and out of them? Anything you know.
The Fruit Guys - Personification of the corporate logo for the Fruit of the Loom underwear company which features a bunch of fruit (two grape clusters, a fig leaf and an apple). In their ad spots, human actors wear life-size costumes that represent the same pieces of fruit. The apple character wears the body of an apple and hat shaped like a core; the two grape guys (green and purple) wear costumes that resemble a stripper covered with balloons at a burlesque house, and closing out the fruity quartet is a guy dressed in a fig leaf costume. The fig leaf, of course, is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that historically (in art history circles) the fig leaf has been used to cover the genital areas of famous statuary/painting representing nude men and women. There is a zipper in the back of the costume to get in and out of.
The roster of actors to play Fruit of the Loom characters (who first appeared in 1975) include veteran actor F. Murray Abraham as the talking Fig Leaf; comedian Joey Faye (died 1997) as the dancing Green Grape in the 1980s commercials; Harry Goz (died 2003) as the Big Apple. |
