These slumber bags were super-popular because they were functional and cool — cool because they often featured favorite cartoon characters, TV shows, movies — and even everyday products, like Crayola crayons and Doritos chips (!).
Here, take a trip back a few decades to see some of the most popular 1980s sleeping bags, as featured in department store catalogs throughout the decade!
Character sleeping bags from 1981: Bugs Bunny, Benji, The Pink Panther
1980s sleeping bags: Spacecraft – Race cars – Tostitos
’80s slumber bags: Peanut Butter and Jelly – Crayola Crayons – Country Kids
80s Superhero sleeping bags: Superman, Wonder Woman
The Wonder Woman sleeping bag also includes Wonder Girl, Supergirl and Bat Girl. And Popeye is somehow included in this Superhero set.
80s sleeping bags: Mighty Mouse & The Amazing Spider Man
Animal characters and body blankets from 1981
Horses, bears, owls, raccoons, frogs, lions & more
A vintage Winnie-the-Pooh sleeping bag from 1981
1980s slumber bags: Includes Alice in Wonderland, Lone Ranger & Tonto, and Sesame Street characters (1980)
Sleeping bags: Unicorn and rainbow, She-Ra Princess of Power, Sesame Street, My LIttle Pony, Alvin & the Chipmunks, Wuzzles, Rainbow Brite (1985)
Vintage sleeping bags: Super Powers, G I Joe, TransFormers, Go Bots, Masters of the Universe, Golden Girl, Knight Rider (1985)
Popular kids’ characters on these eighties slumber bags (1985)
Cartoons included: Care Bears, GLO Friends, Garfield, Care Bears, Barbie, Hot Wheels, Strawberry Shortcake, Hugga Bunch
Vintage TV show sleeping bags (1986)
See Care Bears, Jem, She Ra, Unicorn, My Little Pony, Teddy Ruxpin, My Child, Rainbow Brite
80s sleeping bags: Lisa Frank – Gumball machine & Heart and bear balloons slumber bags (1986)
MORE: Vintage Lisa Frank: Transforming technicolor whimsy into a fun neon reality (1980s & 1990s)
1980s sleeping bags with “boy” themes (1986)
These bags featured Hot Wheels, Centurions, Sesame Street, Pound Puppies, Transformers, G I Joe, MASK, Garfield, Masters of the Universe
Vintage sleeping bags with “girl” themes (1988)
Unicorn, Lady Lovelylocks, Raggedy Ann, My Little Pony, Pound Puppies, Barbie and the Sensations, Bubblegum, Sesame Street, Dinosaurs, Clown, Pee Wee’s Playhouse (1988)
1980s sleeping bags: Classy Duck, Pandas, A to Z, Ocelot, Camouflage, Luv-A-Phant (1988)
80s slumber bags & tents (1988)
Patterns included Disney Mickey’s Express, Duck tales, Roger Rabbit, Bambi, Mickey ‘n Minnie, Magic Kingdom
80s sleeping bags: Alf, Lobo, Hot Wheels, Karate, Snoopy, Superman, Ghost Busters & Garfield (1988)
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