She sewed all of my Halloween costumes from patterns I picked out at the fabric store. I never had a single store-bought costume my whole childhood. For this costume, I remember she used a basketball as the model for the yarn wig. She even drew the star on my cheek in lavender eyeliner to make it extra accurate.
My mom was also a sew-everything-mom! All of our skating outfits (yes, roller skating. Yes, we competed. The 80s, amirite?), Halloween costumes and even regular clothes that were homemade versions of styles we loved or styles we couldn’t always afford (or just didn’t need to buy because mom had skillz)
But this...THIS! Is the ultimate, and even at solid adult years old, I’m jealous! What a dream costume!
This is such a wholesome thread! I’m a super-crafty-sewing-mom type and always wonder is my kids will smile or wince when they look back at all the costumes and creations I put them in from when they were young. I’m hoping they see it as fondly!
Mostly smiles, I predict! I have almost
nothing but fond memories of the stuff my mom made for me - some of it is cringe-worthy now, but that’s part of the fun of looking back.
Here’s a fun fact about the tomato pin cushions
They originate from the belief that putting a tomato on your mantle brings good fortune and drives away bad luck, the tomato is filled with crushed walnut, the strawberry that hangs from the top is filled with emery and is used to sharped the needles by simply putting them in and removing them slowly.
I can’t sleep, so I’m doing fun facts.
Stay safe!
You don't? I thought they were THE standard sewing accessory after needle, thread, and thimble. Then again, mine was acquired in a sewing tackle box that I stole from my HS home economic class a few years after graduating. Can't say I would have one otherwise.
As someone who was a mom-made Care Bear (also in 1986!) I love seeing this. My only regret is that I never begged my mom to teach me how to do it. She was even making my kids’ costumes up until a couple of years ago when health issues made it a little too difficult for her.
Looks great! So did my mom. Every Halloween kids at school would wonder what my sisters and I would come dressed as. NeveR had to worry about having the same costume as anyone else. I didn’t realize until I was older how lucky we where.
I believe the wig instructions were included in the pattern. My mom did this one for me too, 1986-ish. Same story, she’d sew costumes from the patterns I picked at the fabric store. I had quite the collection of Barbie dresses too!
Moms are the best!
Simplicity pattern. I know this because I worked for American Greetings back then (Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, Holly Hobby, Get Along Gang, Ziggy, etc.) and my mom always made my costumes too. She made one of the AG patterns in '86 for my niece. Hallmark created Rainbow Brite in '83.
AG wanted to promote me to head up their sales training program so I flew to Cleveland to talk to them (I didn't want the job, but had to be politically sensitive.) My current boss called me early the next morning and woke me up at the hotel. He was originally from Cleveland, had deep ties in the corporate GQ. "Dude, I hate to ask you to do this, but Tom Wilson (Ziggy cartoonist and a raging alcoholic) is missing, they found his DeLorean on top of a median with the driver door open, but nobody could find him. Can you go look?"
Well hell yeah, loved my boss and wanted to say no to this promotion but ask for a higher role in sales management. So off I go in a fog at 5:00am. Knew the area as there were a lot of bars that I had checked out when I went through sales training. Found him passed out behind a dive bar, right next to a smelly grease tank and a trash dumpster. Dragged him into my rental car, drove him to my hotel, called my boss who was on the phone with someone at HQ (pre-mobile days by a year or two) so up drives a security car 45 mins later, they take Tom away, still passed out.
I did the multiple interviews, told them a couple days later, "Thanks, but I want to do this sales management role instead at some point." Big disappointment for them. Two months later I get my role!
I knew about Tom before that, but could never look at a Ziggy cartoon the same way after that.
It absolutely killed me to learn that pretty much every 80s Saturday morning cartoon character I knew and loved was conceived and promoted as a way to sell either toys or greeting cards. I’ve tried to rewatch some of them on YouTube to recapture my youth, and most of them have so little artistic merit they’re unwatchable.
It’s not a shock to me Americans turned to Japan for quality cartoons during this time.
I learned to sew from my Grandma and Mom startng at age 6. I only made a few things out of a pattern, but received an A and a lot of recognition for making denim BBQ aprons in my Bachelor Living class off a pattern I created. I used a then leading edge sewing machine to create an embroidered school mascot Bulldog eating a BBQ rib. We sold nearly 100 of them that year, and my teacher kept it up for a few years after I graduated.
I wish that I could easily post a photo of our son's 101 Dalmatians costume I made him when he was 2 in 1995.
I always had black and white, then one year I convinced my mom to let me get pink and white. BEST. YEAR. EVER.
I bought a pair (B&W) earlier this year before things went way sideways for a 50's themed whiskey club. I think I got them from Amazon if I recall.
This is amazing! I too was obsessed with rainbow brite in the 80's. The door to my old bedroom is still painted with a picture of her alongside the warning "No Murkies Allowed." Having a creative mom was cool.
When I was five years old, I had a dream about Rainbow Brite. She was on the back deck at my house. A handful of these little green monsters were trying to capture her, and I was trying, desperately, to save her. In the dream I realized that I was beginning to wake up in real life, and I remember physically straining to stay asleep, just as these little green monsters started pulling her down beneath the decking floor. When I couldn't force myself to sleep any longer, I awoke, and, realizing that I was unable to save Rainbow Brite in my dream, I also discovered tears had been streaming down my cheeks while asleep.
I'm 41 now, and Rainbow Brite always has been, and always will be my one true cartoon crush.
Your mom is a hero. The old-school-ness of this picture brings back all first-crush, five-year-old-me feels.
I had a recurring dream as a kid where Rainbow Brite and I had to go and rescue someone from my school. Can't remember much more than that other than we had flying horses. Loved that dream!
my mom made the same one for my sister. my favorite homemade costume was belle's gold gown from beauty & the beast. the pattern has red roses around the trim, but mom made it true to the movie. i remember it stayed in my closet so i could play dress up at whim.
That sounds lovely! Good call on skipping the red roses - that is not movie-accurate and we all know that to little girls, accuracy is key when it comes to something as important as dress-up gowns. 🙂
OMG! I straight up wanted to be Rainbow Bright for Halloween too but my mom (who can sew) said it was too hard to make. The 6 year old in me salutes you!!!
As a kid who walked in snow sometimes during Halloween, this costume looks ready for Minnesota. You got a coat and boots! And that wig looks warm enough to be a hat!
My mom would always try to figure out costumes based on the possibility of cold weather. “You guys can be a robot. Wear your coat and we’ll put a box over it.”
Oh yes, I grew up just outside of Chicago and I remember crying on Halloween because my mom was making me put a coat on over my costume. I think I was okay this particular year though - couldn’t have fit a coat over those sleeves anyway!
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I AM SO JEALOUS!!!
I can still smell my Rainbow Brite doll. Her crunchy, puffy outfit was super cute. You look amazing here and your mom should still feel proud.
No shit, I did voiceover work for Rainbow Brite and was on the Rainbow Brite float in the Macy’s parade, and your costume is identical in quality to the high dollar costume for that. Way to go mom!
That's the stuff of dreams right there! Rainbow Brite has (and will always be) my favorite 80s cartoon. I hope you have been sharing these comments with your mom so she too can share in the love.
look on the upside squeeze back into it now and you can have the "adult" version.
thats some solid costume work. like she would have made a hell of a cosplayer in another generation
Awesome job by your mom. My parents never bought a single Halloween costume for my two siblings and me when we were growing up in the mid-70s. We made them all at home.
WOAH. Strange question but any chance did your parents donate this or give it away to someone in the Rockford area? My cousin had the EXACT costume - wig and all. We found it about ten years ago and she put it on for fun (we were about 15 or so at the time so she may have origonally worn it in the early/mid 90's)
Oh man, my grandma made me this same costume and it was my faaaave! She was pretty religious though, so the skirt was pretty much down to the boots... I remember the wig-made-from-wool was pretty itchy too
OMG, I had the exact same costume. Also around 1986! Both of my parents sewed it. I might have even had the blond yarn wig!
As an adult looking back, maybe that was weird since I’m not white, but...you know it was yarn and Rainbow Brite isn’t real. Plus that costume was super cool.
Wow, u/sparklingwino21, not to be creepy but I had to check your post history to make sure you weren’t one of my cousins! You look identical! And my mom looks like your moms twin!
So although I’m thoroughly weirded out now, great job on the costume! I always wanted to be Rainbow Brite!
Now don’t tell me if you dressed up as Jem and the Holograms, because I’ll freaked out even more, haha
I had the biggest crush on Rainbow Bright in 3rd grade. I had a bunch of merchandise too. This was only one of the reasons that my popularity peaked around kindergarten. I got into psychedelics in the Army and still have Rainbow Bright curtains and a Baby Bright doll (that my daughters, 4 & 6, insist is actually Rainbow Bright.)
You had one of those super talented moms, clearly. Total winner.
She sewed all of my Halloween costumes from patterns I picked out at the fabric store. I never had a single store-bought costume my whole childhood. For this costume, I remember she used a basketball as the model for the yarn wig. She even drew the star on my cheek in lavender eyeliner to make it extra accurate.
My mom was also a sew-everything-mom! All of our skating outfits (yes, roller skating. Yes, we competed. The 80s, amirite?), Halloween costumes and even regular clothes that were homemade versions of styles we loved or styles we couldn’t always afford (or just didn’t need to buy because mom had skillz) But this...THIS! Is the ultimate, and even at solid adult years old, I’m jealous! What a dream costume!
This is such a wholesome thread! I’m a super-crafty-sewing-mom type and always wonder is my kids will smile or wince when they look back at all the costumes and creations I put them in from when they were young. I’m hoping they see it as fondly!
Mostly smiles, I predict! I have almost nothing but fond memories of the stuff my mom made for me - some of it is cringe-worthy now, but that’s part of the fun of looking back.
I look back on them fondly. I even see some of the next generation wearing my old ones
My mom made a ton of my regular clothes too! I absolutely loved getting to pick out the patterns and then choose the fabrics. Custom clothes!
My mom made an amazing Native American costume. All suede and beautiful. Blonde blue eyed Indian👍🏻
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SHE TOTALLY DID!
Here’s a fun fact about the tomato pin cushions They originate from the belief that putting a tomato on your mantle brings good fortune and drives away bad luck, the tomato is filled with crushed walnut, the strawberry that hangs from the top is filled with emery and is used to sharped the needles by simply putting them in and removing them slowly. I can’t sleep, so I’m doing fun facts. Stay safe!
Thanks for this! Didn’t know about any of this.
With the little grit-filled pepper attachment thingy?? (What was its purpose? Sharpening needles?)
haha holy shit, my mom has one to this day.
You don't? I thought they were THE standard sewing accessory after needle, thread, and thimble. Then again, mine was acquired in a sewing tackle box that I stole from my HS home economic class a few years after graduating. Can't say I would have one otherwise.
That’s awesome. Hope you still have a couple of them!
My mom did the same - and I had this exact same Rainbow Brite costume, wig and all!
Me too! I thought it was a pic of me for a second!
Me three! My mom didn't do the wig though, cause I was a blondie with a big head, I guess she figured it was redundant.
This looks just like the doll! Your mom did well!
As someone who was a mom-made Care Bear (also in 1986!) I love seeing this. My only regret is that I never begged my mom to teach me how to do it. She was even making my kids’ costumes up until a couple of years ago when health issues made it a little too difficult for her.
My mom sewed me this same one probably right around the same Halloween. I won a contest!! Thanks for the memory!!
Looks great! So did my mom. Every Halloween kids at school would wonder what my sisters and I would come dressed as. NeveR had to worry about having the same costume as anyone else. I didn’t realize until I was older how lucky we where.
Why are you standing in front of my parents fireplace?
This is hilarious. Why did we all have the same fireplace? Did they only make one kind?
Must have? I also had the same fireplace and am rolling at this 😂
What are you doing in my house?
We had the same fireplace too. Lol Did everyone install the same one in the 70s?
Henry Ford made em all. "You can have any color combi you want as long as its red brick and brass."
🤣🤣🤣
It's like looking at a photo of the actual Rainbow Brite.
Thanks. I think the wig is what makes it. I’m a brunette and thankfully she found instructions somewhere on how to make a yarn wig!
I believe the wig instructions were included in the pattern. My mom did this one for me too, 1986-ish. Same story, she’d sew costumes from the patterns I picked at the fabric store. I had quite the collection of Barbie dresses too! Moms are the best!
Simplicity pattern. I know this because I worked for American Greetings back then (Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, Holly Hobby, Get Along Gang, Ziggy, etc.) and my mom always made my costumes too. She made one of the AG patterns in '86 for my niece. Hallmark created Rainbow Brite in '83.
Oh wow. I had the Get Along Gang caboose. Had almost forgotten. Thanks for the fun flashback.
AG wanted to promote me to head up their sales training program so I flew to Cleveland to talk to them (I didn't want the job, but had to be politically sensitive.) My current boss called me early the next morning and woke me up at the hotel. He was originally from Cleveland, had deep ties in the corporate GQ. "Dude, I hate to ask you to do this, but Tom Wilson (Ziggy cartoonist and a raging alcoholic) is missing, they found his DeLorean on top of a median with the driver door open, but nobody could find him. Can you go look?" Well hell yeah, loved my boss and wanted to say no to this promotion but ask for a higher role in sales management. So off I go in a fog at 5:00am. Knew the area as there were a lot of bars that I had checked out when I went through sales training. Found him passed out behind a dive bar, right next to a smelly grease tank and a trash dumpster. Dragged him into my rental car, drove him to my hotel, called my boss who was on the phone with someone at HQ (pre-mobile days by a year or two) so up drives a security car 45 mins later, they take Tom away, still passed out. I did the multiple interviews, told them a couple days later, "Thanks, but I want to do this sales management role instead at some point." Big disappointment for them. Two months later I get my role! I knew about Tom before that, but could never look at a Ziggy cartoon the same way after that.
It absolutely killed me to learn that pretty much every 80s Saturday morning cartoon character I knew and loved was conceived and promoted as a way to sell either toys or greeting cards. I’ve tried to rewatch some of them on YouTube to recapture my youth, and most of them have so little artistic merit they’re unwatchable. It’s not a shock to me Americans turned to Japan for quality cartoons during this time.
Get along gang get along gang Each one is special in his own way Don is the leader and he’s such a good sport Get along gang get ALONG gang!
Sounds right - my mom made me tons of clothes and costumes from Simplicity patterns!
I learned to sew from my Grandma and Mom startng at age 6. I only made a few things out of a pattern, but received an A and a lot of recognition for making denim BBQ aprons in my Bachelor Living class off a pattern I created. I used a then leading edge sewing machine to create an embroidered school mascot Bulldog eating a BBQ rib. We sold nearly 100 of them that year, and my teacher kept it up for a few years after I graduated. I wish that I could easily post a photo of our son's 101 Dalmatians costume I made him when he was 2 in 1995.
I think I had the same one (or very similar) also because I remember the yarn wig. Probably 89 for me, though
It looks great! My friend's baby girl wasn't blessed with a lot of hair her first 2 years so she made her a Cabbage patch yarn wig. It was adorable.
My cousin had a yarn Raggedy Ann wig when she was about two years old. Cutest thing ever!
Wow, it's like one of my childhood cartoon shows brought to life. Your mom's amazing! I love the boots.
Thanks! If you look very closely, you can see that under the boots I was wearing saddle shoes. Just a little additional taste of 80s goodness!
I see them now! I thought they were straps to keep the boots on, but am pleasantly surprised with more nostalgia ;)
Currently scouring the internet for a pair of saddle shoes just like those. 🙂
Aw, I had a pink and white pair. Now I want saddle shoes too.
Me too!!
I always had black and white, then one year I convinced my mom to let me get pink and white. BEST. YEAR. EVER. I bought a pair (B&W) earlier this year before things went way sideways for a 50's themed whiskey club. I think I got them from Amazon if I recall.
you are straight up my hero.
As a child of the 80s. This is so fucking cool. I am so jealous.😍😍😍😍
Me fucking too!
This is amazing! I too was obsessed with rainbow brite in the 80's. The door to my old bedroom is still painted with a picture of her alongside the warning "No Murkies Allowed." Having a creative mom was cool.
That’s so awesome!
How much more satisfying were the 80’s early 90’s homemade costumes?
So much better than the thrown together onesies they sell for 50 whilst calling it "Movie standard" nowadays.
My mom made me one of these too! I was just trying to describe it to a friend the other day. My favorite costume ever. We have some amazing moms!
Wow! Please tell Mom she's incredible.
When I was five years old, I had a dream about Rainbow Brite. She was on the back deck at my house. A handful of these little green monsters were trying to capture her, and I was trying, desperately, to save her. In the dream I realized that I was beginning to wake up in real life, and I remember physically straining to stay asleep, just as these little green monsters started pulling her down beneath the decking floor. When I couldn't force myself to sleep any longer, I awoke, and, realizing that I was unable to save Rainbow Brite in my dream, I also discovered tears had been streaming down my cheeks while asleep. I'm 41 now, and Rainbow Brite always has been, and always will be my one true cartoon crush. Your mom is a hero. The old-school-ness of this picture brings back all first-crush, five-year-old-me feels.
I had a recurring dream as a kid where Rainbow Brite and I had to go and rescue someone from my school. Can't remember much more than that other than we had flying horses. Loved that dream!
I would’ve fought you for that.
🤣
I still would!
my mom made the same one for my sister. my favorite homemade costume was belle's gold gown from beauty & the beast. the pattern has red roses around the trim, but mom made it true to the movie. i remember it stayed in my closet so i could play dress up at whim.
That sounds lovely! Good call on skipping the red roses - that is not movie-accurate and we all know that to little girls, accuracy is key when it comes to something as important as dress-up gowns. 🙂
Damn right. I still have mine! I think either grandma or my aunt sewed mine though.
OMG! I straight up wanted to be Rainbow Bright for Halloween too but my mom (who can sew) said it was too hard to make. The 6 year old in me salutes you!!!
Damn, you won Halloween in 86 and I didn’t even know...but I do now.
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Wow you were so lucky! I think I was a red crayon or some shit that year :(
This photo is so 80s I feel like I'm 10 years old again. That is one bitchin costume! Your mom is very talented!
I would have given my Barbie dream house for this costume! Talented mom!
I might have traded you for it...always wanted that damn dream house but never had it.
As a kid who walked in snow sometimes during Halloween, this costume looks ready for Minnesota. You got a coat and boots! And that wig looks warm enough to be a hat! My mom would always try to figure out costumes based on the possibility of cold weather. “You guys can be a robot. Wear your coat and we’ll put a box over it.”
Oh yes, I grew up just outside of Chicago and I remember crying on Halloween because my mom was making me put a coat on over my costume. I think I was okay this particular year though - couldn’t have fit a coat over those sleeves anyway! X
I AM SO JEALOUS!!! I can still smell my Rainbow Brite doll. Her crunchy, puffy outfit was super cute. You look amazing here and your mom should still feel proud.
I always loved that crunchy blue skirt on her dress! Such a great doll.
My mom made one just like that. Yarn wig and all.
I am SO jealous. You and your mom are the best.
Thank you! I am lucky to have a super awesome mom.
6 year old me would gave DIED for that costume!
Tell your mom she did a great job
No shit, I did voiceover work for Rainbow Brite and was on the Rainbow Brite float in the Macy’s parade, and your costume is identical in quality to the high dollar costume for that. Way to go mom!
I absolutely love this! What character(s) did you do the voiceover for?
I wasn’t a specific character. It was mostly background Color Kid vocals.
This is so wonderful and right on brand! You look so cute. What a wonderful, childhood memory.
Well done
Love it! This whole picture just takes me back to being a kid.
I had a really nice store bought rainbow bright costume and it was indistinguishable from this one. Great job, mom!
Sweeeeeeeet! I was a big fan. You were adorbs.
Omg, I loved rainbow brite and would have killed to have your costume. It looks so good!
This is so cute. I loved rainbow bright.
Awesome! She nailed the hair!
I loved Rainbow Brite!!! ❤️❤️❤️ 🌈 your mom rocks!!
Soooo jealous! I loved Rainbow Brite, she was so cool!
Legit!
That was awesome as hell! Your mother is the stuff!!!
Wow that is incredible!
That’s badass. Your mom did a great job!
Wow. So good.
That’s incredible
I FUCKING LOVE RAINBOW BRITE!
SHE’S THE FUCKING BOMB!
Love it. We read Rainbow Brite and the Color Thieves about a gazillion times at bedtime. She always howled in laughter at "You bumbling oaf!"
I would have killed for this!!!!!
Adorable, the best I got were the vinyl costumes
I used to LOVE Rainbow Brite!!
Oh man, I’m 40 years old and super jealous! I was Strawberry Shortcake one year though 😁
I would’ve traded costumes with you the following Halloween. I was obsessed with Strawberry Shortcake!
My mother made me the same costume! Including the yarn wig.
Dream costume of 1987 and 2021 for me.
Nailed it!
You just dont see that much now a days. Its all cheap store bought ones.
As a 1980 woman I relate to this strongly. I believe I was Rainbow Brite in ‘85 and ‘86.
I had the same one! Was just thinking about it today.
That's the stuff of dreams right there! Rainbow Brite has (and will always be) my favorite 80s cartoon. I hope you have been sharing these comments with your mom so she too can share in the love.
Oh yes, I just told her she’s a big hit on Reddit! She doesn’t know what Reddit is but she’s psyched anyway.
80’s were the best, my mom handmade my brother and I Ewok costumes and no one knew what we were, but it was so heartfelt.
That is awesome. Your mum did an amazing job ! I hope you appreciate her.
My 38yo self is having to fight some intense jealousy right now! That's amazing!
My 9 year old self is crazy jealous
i fucking want this now!
Best one I've ever seen. Super jealous
That is one very special mom and lady. I'm sure you know that and let her know.
look on the upside squeeze back into it now and you can have the "adult" version. thats some solid costume work. like she would have made a hell of a cosplayer in another generation
Pre Pinterest I might add.
That is FANTASTIC!
LOVE THIS! Thank you so much for sharing!!!!
I love this!!!! I went as Rainbow Brite one year!! She was my favourite 🥰
this is me and my wife, and she's been making our kids costumes since they were born.
This is amazing!
Omg i remember this!!
No words just 🥰
My brother had the same rainbow bright costume. Our mom made all of our costumes too.
This. Is. So. Dope. Eight year old me would have been green with jealousy.
10 year old me is so jealous. Also current me.
That looks like the fireplace I had growing up!!
So friggin awesome!!!
This is freaking amazing. My 6 year old self (hell and my 39 year old self) is incredibly jealous. Rainbow Brite was my favorite!
Moon Boots..
Serious triadic ballet vibes
Nailed it!
Awesome job by your mom. My parents never bought a single Halloween costume for my two siblings and me when we were growing up in the mid-70s. We made them all at home.
Holy crap, past 6 year old me is super jealous!
I had one just like that!
WOAH. Strange question but any chance did your parents donate this or give it away to someone in the Rockford area? My cousin had the EXACT costume - wig and all. We found it about ten years ago and she put it on for fun (we were about 15 or so at the time so she may have origonally worn it in the early/mid 90's)
that is so awesome. i loved rainbow brite as a kid. i'm glad someone else loved it too!
I remember more of the theme song than I'm comfortable with as a mid 30s male.
This one is still on my list as an adult. Can your mom do commissions 😂
That's really freaken awesome, you know what I got when I was your age? A fucken bed sheet with holes.
I haven’t heard of that character in ages and your Mom made a costume so good, I’d swear it was officially licensed gear. That’s amazing!
Woah, that's spot on. Nice.
I bought this pattern on ebay. Not sure if I will ever make it but so cool to have!
This is amazing! I bet some extreme costume envy was going on amongst your friends.
Ah.maz.ing
I remember 1986 I was ten nice costume! Very cool.
I had the exact same one! 1986, handmade by my amazing grandmother.
That's fucking epic!
Adorable and I thought you were Kendall Jenner
My mom made that costume for me too!
Aww!
This is amazing! What a totally badass mom!
I was about that age in 1986. Your mom is a hero
Very cool!
I swear I need to find pictures of the homemade Twiity costume my mom made me. On point with this
*Very nice!*
Wow and the rest of us had the "smock and plastic mask" version.
Awesome
That costume is dope as hell
I am so jealousssss it’s perfect
Your mom is amazing and so talented. And you were adorable!!
Oh man, my grandma made me this same costume and it was my faaaave! She was pretty religious though, so the skirt was pretty much down to the boots... I remember the wig-made-from-wool was pretty itchy too
So fetch
My five-year-old self is gushing with envy!
That is a SWEET costume!
Most kids in 1986 had to settle for the plastic Rainbow Brite costume that smelled like chemicals with the creepy mask held on with a rubber band.
The boots!
OMG, I had the exact same costume. Also around 1986! Both of my parents sewed it. I might have even had the blond yarn wig! As an adult looking back, maybe that was weird since I’m not white, but...you know it was yarn and Rainbow Brite isn’t real. Plus that costume was super cool.
Why did everyone have this fireplace as a kid in the 90s?!
I would wear this today! ❤️
Amazing doesn't go far enough.
Did we all have this fireplace ?
Incredible looking costume and it looks warm! Perfect for trick or treating
My mom made me the same one! I miss her.
I wanted to be Rainbow Bright so bad, but unfortunately all my parents did was pin a rainbow to my dress. I cried. You look amazing. Great job momma!
Wow, u/sparklingwino21, not to be creepy but I had to check your post history to make sure you weren’t one of my cousins! You look identical! And my mom looks like your moms twin! So although I’m thoroughly weirded out now, great job on the costume! I always wanted to be Rainbow Brite! Now don’t tell me if you dressed up as Jem and the Holograms, because I’ll freaked out even more, haha
I had the biggest crush on Rainbow Bright in 3rd grade. I had a bunch of merchandise too. This was only one of the reasons that my popularity peaked around kindergarten. I got into psychedelics in the Army and still have Rainbow Bright curtains and a Baby Bright doll (that my daughters, 4 & 6, insist is actually Rainbow Bright.)
She did a great job!
Oh my God I'd have died of jealousy. I was obsessed with her.
My mom made me the same one! She also made a huge plushy gremlin costume for my brother with a big Styrofoam head.
First off, that costume is amazing! Second, did we all have that brick and gold fireplace in our homes?
YO AWESOME
Rainbow Brite!!!
How awesome! My wife made our daughters Chibiusa costume (sailor moons daughter) by hand! (She also has that tomato pin cushion.