Girl Scout Sleeping Bags | Vintage Girl Scout

Girl Scout Sleeping Bags & 1 Hammock

The first official Girl Scout sleeping bag - with the GS mark, was 1938.
Sleeping bags without a GS mark are not listed here, even if they were carried in the catalogs.
The "head canopy" also worked as the carry bag.
Sometimes ONLY the carry bag had the GS mark.
Sometimes the identifying code number for a sleeping bag was used on 2 different style bags. I tried to make note of that below.
Amazingly, from 1996 until 2018 the GS catalogs either didn't carry sleeping bags OR the sleeping bags didn't carry a GS mark.

1938

What's the difference here?

16-160 is larger and heavier
16-160 sleeping bag has a full zipper and unzips completely, It could be used as a bedspread.
16-161 only has a 36" zipper
16-160 inner liner is flannel
16-161 inner liner is drill (cotton twill)

1941

1944F

No known illustrations of 16-162
Unknown if the GS mark was used
Filling was wool - not Kapok .
- Kapok was not available during World War II

1946

1951

1957

Filler is 100% grey goose down

1957

GS mark is on the canopy

The 1958 "Budget Bag" 15-225 was sold for several years, and apparently in different fabrics. The picture from the catalog (used for several years) show a plaid bag with a green inner liner - yet these photos from an actual 15-225 shows a green bag with a plaid inner liner. The Budget Bag was the only Girl Scout sleeping bag to use "CELACLOUD" acetate as a filler.

1958

This bag has a canopy, but it isn't shown here

1963

1970

When first offered in 1963, this bag (red) used the same inventory number as another bag from 1957

(shown above)

15-224

It wasn't until 1972 that it got it's own inventory number

12-2249

Neither of these plaid sleeping bags carry the GS mark, except on the label

center of the daisies have a trefoil

1974

1977

1979

This bag carries the same inventory as a bag from 1951, but it's not like it's going to be confused with the other one.

1981

I've included all 3 catalog images (1982,1983, 1984) because they all look different. I have never seen this particular sleeping bag, so I don't know which image is correct.

The "camping emblem" is a familiar Girl Scout patch.