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Originally Posted by mastophilus
I found an earlier thong in another movie with a famous ENF scene: Cheryl Rixon getting stripped in "Used Cars". I hadn't noticed it before, but from the pictures on this site of this scene, it's pretty obvious she's wearing a thong.
Used Cars: released 11 July 1980.
Can we now find one in the 70s? Given that Hollywood was working under the Hays Code until 1968, I highly doubt we'll find one in an American movie earlier than that.
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You beat me to the Used Cars scene, mastophilus. That was the earliest "thong" scene that I could remember. I do recall reading that Sigourney Weaver was going to wear a G-string in the original Alien (1979), but it was changed to a string bikini (of course, Sigourney wanted to do the scene fully nude!). Xwwwwxx is correct, they were called G-strings, and then I believe T-backs before they were called thongs. I'm just working from memory, but here are a few early thong scenes; I think that some of the girls in The Best Little wh*r*house in Texas (1982) wore thongs during the dance number in which they rip their dresses off. Tawny Kitaen (and the rest of the female cast) wore leather G-strings/thongs in The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of Yik Yak (1984). Barbara Crampton wore sort of a "thong" in From Beyond (1986), but I think the first ACTUAL thong scene in a hollywood movie was 1994's True Lies. Jamie Lee Curtis seems to be the one to blame for this awful fad, because after that film, the damn things went mainstream.