Brave Gowns

Brave Gowns Have Changed the Game in Hospital Wear & Patient Care! Since 2015, over 450,000 & have been worn by patients in Children's Hospitals worldwide.

During the pandemic, we've put over 300,000 masks on essential workers & families. MADE IN THE USA Since 2015, over 450,000 and have been worn by patients in Children's Hospitals worldwide. Brave Gowns have been featured on Fox News, NBC, ABC, CBS, Huffington Post, The Talk, The Doctors and numerous other media outlets. During the pandemic, we've put over 300,000 masks on healthcare workers, essen

tial workers, bio tech labs, police officers, firefighters, inmates and homeless shelters. We were also able to gift over $25,000 to families with a child going through medical treatment. We couldn't do it without your support and purchases. We are and always have been made in the USA. Thank you! What is a Brave Gown? A Brave Gown is a gown that a child will wear when going through a treatment that scares them, a horrible shot, a spinal tap, an MRI, an x-ray, a long hospital stay or just a moment that they need to feel BRAVE! One of the biggest reasons kids love superheroes is the sense of control and power they have on the world. For superheroes, anything is possible. We want children in the hospital fighting even the toughest disease, to put forth their best fight and conquer what battle they're fighting. Whether a child's favorite superhero is Batman, Superman or Cinderella while wearing a "Brave Gown" they will believe that can take on any illness! Children have very limited control in their daily lives and especially when going through treatment for an illness. Becoming a superhero will allow them to access some sense of power during this scary time. What inspired me to make Brave Gowns? More than 3 million children are hospitalized in the United States. Every 33 minutes a child is diagnosed with cancer and that's just one reason that children are admitted to the hospital. Twelve years ago on Halloween, my family became one of those statistics. Little did we know we were about to be faced with the fight of our lives. My brother, my only sibling, was only 10 years-old. I was 15 years-old older than him. We went from an office visit directly to the fight of our lives that ended up with us spending over a year in the hospital. I wish my story had a happy ending and I can tell you that my brother lived, but he is in heaven. He fought a battle that they said was impossible, but he beat it. In the end, he went to heaven due to a medical error. My favorite memory of our journey was the following year once again on Halloween. My brother was in the PICU (Pediactric Intensive Care Unit) and couldn't go Trick or Treating. He was laying there in a dingy pale yellow hospital gown that looked like it had been washed hundreds of times. There was nothing festive about it. It did not represent his personality or the holiday that he so loved! So I painted his face like a zombie. We were laughing so hard while I was painting it. Life felt a bit "normal" during this horrible time, but then we got in so much trouble! His skin practically peeled off, but all I could see behind it was his smile! He was so happy. Around Halloween of this year, I saw a picture of my friend's daughter that is now going through treatment and she was posing in her gown with a caption that read, "Maya trying to rock her blah hospital gown before her spinal tap!" That's when the idea of Brave Gowns hit me. Hospital gowns make you feel like just a number. They do not reflect these children's personalities. They do not bring hope!

07/03/2025

Can we help Addi rally? She’s so close to her goal! ♥️🙌

💔 FINAL CALL for BRAVE GOWN DONATIONS

This is it, friends…The last post you will see asking for Brave Gowns and Addi's final chance to give as many gowns as possible to kids in the hospital! She is sad but determined to give as many as possible ONE LAST TIME!

Brave Gowns is officially closing, and yes, today is your LAST chance to support Addi’s final Brave Gown Mission.

For every child who found strength in a gown…
For every parent who found peace in the chaos…
For Addi—and every warrior like her—let’s finish strong.

🎗️ Donate a gown. Share this post.
Let’s show these brave kids that someone cares!

Thank you for being a part of Addi’s army. You’ve made a difference in her journey and so many other children in their journey when you donated a gown and brought them a smile and comfort during their foght.

💛 Let’s do this—one last time for Addi, for kids everywhere fighting their own health battle, and in memory of Mac....Summer's brother and the reason Brave Gowns was founded!

Thank you all for your support and love!

👇 Donation details in the comments!

Much love ~

06/25/2025

We are so thankful for all Addi’s Journey has done for Brave Gowns over the years! She has raised and gifted thousands of gowns to children’s hospitals all up and down the coast, while also shipping them throughout the country! Addi’s heart is so big! We are doing all we can and cheering her on to help her reach her goal for what is possibly her last Brave Gown mission!

We’d love your help to get her to her goal!
https://www.bravegowns.com/products/addis-journeys-mission

I received a message from our sweet friend Summer, the incredible founder of Brave Gowns, with bittersweet news — Addi’s Summer Brave Gown Mission will be the very LAST one!

Brave Gowns will be sending out their final gown donations and will be closing their doors in the near future. When I shared the news with Addi this morning, she was heartbroken. Brave Gowns has been such a special part of her journey — a mission she’s believed in with all her heart. But in true Addi fashion, she wants to finish strong. We are determined to make Addi’s Final Brave Gown Mission the biggest one yet — donating as many gowns as possible to bless children fighting their hardest battles in hospitals.

For over a decade, Summer has poured her heart into Brave Gowns in memory of her little brother, Mac, who also battled cancer. Her love and compassion have reached thousands of children — including Addi — and we are forever grateful. We want to continue her mission by spreading more joy, courage, and comfort to as many children as possible one final time through Brave Gowns.

Through your generous support over the past 5 years, Addi’s Brave Gown Missions have gifted thousands of gowns to kids in hospitals across the country. We’ve hand-delivered gowns up and down the East Coast, and shipped thousands more nationwide — all because of YOU.

So now, we’re asking one last time:
~Help us make Addi’s final Brave Gown Mission unforgettable.
~Help us honor Mac and Summer’s legacy and the lives touched by Brave Gowns.
~Help us bring smiles, hope, and bravery to kids who need it most.

Even one gown makes a difference. Every share helps us reach one more child. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for believing in Addi, in Brave Gowns, and in the power of kindness. It has meant the world to our family — and we couldn’t have done it without you.

See the comments to donate to Addi’s Final Brave Gown Mission. Let’s go out with one final, beautiful act of giving!

Have a blessed and JOY filled day!

Much love ~

06/21/2025

The most incredibly brave and strong family. I’m so grateful to call Meagan friend and praying for Charley and Levi’s healing always.♥️

06/06/2025

Let’s help Addi keep her birthday money and fill her bucket for her! Addi is a stage 4 high risk Neuroloblastoma survivor. She has worked so hard for so many years raising Brave Gowns, pillowcases and books for hospitalized kids! We are matching every donation made today to help her fill her bucket and get to spend her birthday money on herself! 🙌💖🙏

You can donate a gown at this link. Although you are asked for your address, all gowns will be shipped to Addi:

https://www.bravegowns.com/products/addis-journeys-mission

Happy Summer Everyone!

Addi needs your help and I know you guys can help her. The last few weeks of her 3rd grade year, Addi's amazing school, the students and the staff at her school had a fundraiser for Brave Gowns. Addi was so touched that her school would want to help other children who would be in the hospital this summer by providing them a Brave Gown. In a few weeks Addi will be delivering those gowns to CHOA so she's continuing what her school started and she's trying to have as many gowns as possible donated so she can deliver them ro children in the hospital when she goes for her appointments this summer.

Will you help Addi as she tries to do what she does best and spreads JOY to others this summer! My sweet girl has already committed to donating some of her birthday money because that's her heart....to help others. She actually wanted to donate all of it but I told her she deserves to spend some of her birthday money on herself as well. I love her giving heart so much!

I'm going to put the link in the comments. We hope you all are enjoying the summer! Lots of summer pics coming soon! Have a blessed and JOY filled day!

Much love ~

06/03/2025

I saw a hummingbird earlier today. It was looking at me through the window at eye level. I felt its significance in my soul. Later this evening, in the same room, I said a prayer in my head, and then told my brother in heaven something that had been on my heart that I had decided. In that moment, I felt the weight of the world come off me and this happened with the candle. When Mac died, his oncologist, an old German man with a thick accent, pulled me aside to say, “Summer, Mac is still here. Just in a different form. His soul didn’t grow weary. His body did. The body is just the vehicle that the soul drives while it’s here on earth. We are all energy. You will feel him with you and you will know it’s him. Never question it. It is real.” I have story after story of the proof I have that Dr. Kletzel was 100% correct. From seeing 11:11 -‘d 4:44 twice a day, every day to sliding through hundreds of pennies in a parking lot to saying prove if with ducks and there being ten ducks at my front door. When this happens, I know I am on the right path and being most true to myself. Three things I have always been able to count on in this world have been God, the universe and signs from Mac. I hope you never doubt even the smallest signs too. If anything ever gives you hope, embrace it, because on most days, it’s all we have. 🕯️🔥🙌

06/02/2025

💙⚾️ Hey Brave friends! Do we have any little Dodgers or Mets fans out there? We have a few Dodgers tickets for tonight’s game vs. the Mets and would love to treat a Brave family!

If you’re in the LA area and up for a fun night at the ballpark, send us a message! Let’s make some memories under the stadium lights! 🌟💪

06/01/2025

You didn’t survive—but our love did.
And from that love, Brave Gowns was born.

I’ve given everything I have to help families and kids—because I never want there to be another Survivor’s Day where a child isn’t here to celebrate.

For every child still fighting, and for the ones who should be.

For you, Mac. And for every every family that still gets one single day of hope. People say time is a thief, but I can promise you it’s a gift 💛

05/22/2025

This Brave girl is one step closer to healing! Her never ending smile shows Kennedy’s strength. We hope she gets all her favorite foods for the next six days! She’s a girl after my own heart! Keep cheering Kennedy on! 🙌

・・・
Kennedy’s surgery yesterday went great! It was definitely more invasive than previous surgeries, so she was pretty out of it yesterday.

This most recent procedure was more debulking; removing excess tissue/fat/muscle, and they also did some laser resurfacing which should help improve the look of the scars. Needless to say, we’re pretty excited to see how it looks today! There’s a LOT of post-op care this time around, so it looks like Kenz and I got a surprise six-day weekend. 😱😂

05/09/2025

This year has been full of highs and lows for Brave Gowns—more than I ever imagined bearing. I woke up today overwhelmed off the bat, sorting through chaos, and just started throwing things away—physically and emotionally to clear out energy for new. I broke when my facial recognition on my phone wouldn’t open. I get it, Pal. I’m not looking my best…But in that moment, I reminded myself: You’ve manifested your whole life. Stay in faith.

God has shown up for me 1,000,000 times. I know first hand that—one hour, one day, or one month, can change everything.

Within 15 minutes of that praying, I opened an email from a pastor that I have never met. She is doing a project with kids in her community. She has no idea of the need we have. The difference that they could make. Instantly, it reminded me: the power of faith, manifestation, the universe and God are so real. I have so many stories to tell. When I screw up, I don’t mess up little. I go all in. I believe in helping so much, that it’s constantly at the cost of myself. I probably exhaust God. I test how much I will be carried, because he hasn’t let me down yet. Have I had disappointments? The biggest of the big. Have I made it through 100% of the hardest moments I’ve been given? Yes. If you’re reading this, you have too.

If this year has been heavy for you too, I hope this reminds you to keep going. The only way through is to stay kind, stay grounded, and help others along the way. Nothing has changed for me today, but hope. Somedays, hope is enough. Today I choose hope. I hope you will too. 🙏

05/09/2025

Sweet Josie has been in the hospital for over 190 days—that’s more than six months—waiting for a heart transplant. She’s been wearing Brave Gowns since she was just 3 months old, and through every procedure, poke, and day spent in her hospital room… she’s kept her precious smile and unwavering hope.

Josie is the kind of brave that inspires all of us.

We’re holding on to hope that her perfect heart comes soon—and until then, we’ll keep doing everything we can to bring comfort and courage through each Brave Gown.

Please join us in sending love, prayers, and strength to Josie and her amazing family. You’ve got this, sweet girl.

Thank you all for supporting and helping Brave Gowns spread comfort and smiles all over the world 🙌

04/22/2025

Happy Birthday in heaven, Mac. I spent all day trying to write about my one and only sibling and last years post still seems so fitting. I wanted to share all the right stories, with the perfect words. I couldn’t and it drained me all day. Maybe it’s not about words. My actions for the last ten years through Brave Gowns, show love for him. He lived a life in ten years that most won’t live to be one hundred. He braved a reality that I wish upon no child. He was the craziest, funniest and kindest ten-year-old with the mouth of a trucker. I still apologize if I swear. He was the better sibling, even at ten. The first picture is us during his first transplant. He asked me to lay with him, but to not touch him. That was so Mac. He would never wear a hospital gown, so we had to. Also so fitting. He made the rules. Rightly so if he was only getting ten years.

Through Brave Gowns, my love for him is wrapped around almost a million children and entrusted and entwined in so many other families’ journeys. I’m so honored to get to spread my love for Mac, while being the vessel for good. Thank you all for still being here. I need you more than ever. Maybe ten-years is all I have give. Ten years for fighting to better the hospital experience for kids. One year for every year Mac was physically here. I hope not. I want to do so much more. We need one giant miracle to keep Brave Gowns going and growing! I can’t thank you all enough for all your kind words and support for these last ten years! If you want to rally for a miracle with me, please let me know! 💛

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What inspired me to make Brave Gowns? More than 3 million children are hospitalized in the United States. Every 33 minutes a child is diagnosed with cancer and that's just one reason that children are admitted to the hospital. Twelve years ago on Halloween, my family became one of those statistics. Little did we know we were about to be faced with the fight of our lives. My brother, my only sibling, was only 10 years-old. I was 15 years-old older than him. We went from an office visit directly to the fight of our lives that ended up with us spending over a year in the hospital. I wish my story had a happy ending and I can tell you that my brother lived, but he is in heaven. He fought a battle that they said was impossible, but he beat it. In the end, he went to heaven due to a medical error. My favorite memory of our journey was the following year once again on Halloween. My brother was in the PICU (Pediactric Intensive Care Unit) and couldn't go Trick or Treating. He was laying there in a dingy pale yellow hospital gown that looked like it had been washed hundreds of times. There was nothing festive about it. It did not represent his personality or the holiday that he so loved! So I painted his face like a zombie. We were laughing so hard while I was painting it. Life felt a bit "normal" during this horrible time, but then we got in so much trouble! His skin practically peeled off, but all I could see behind it was his smile! He was so happy. Around Halloween of this year, I saw a picture of my friend's daughter that is now going through treatment and she was posing in her gown with a caption that read, "Maya trying to rock her blah hospital gown before her spinal tap!" That's when the idea of Brave Gowns hit me. Hospital gowns make you feel like just a number. They do not reflect these children's personalities. They do not bring hope! I knew we could do better!

What is a Brave Gown? A Brave Gown is a gown that a child will wear when going through a treatment that scares them, a horrible shot, a spinal tap, an MRI, an x-ray, a long hospital stay or just a moment that they need to feel BRAVE! One of the biggest reasons kids love superheroes is the sense of control and power they have on the world. For superheroes, anything is possible. We want children in the hospital fighting even the toughest disease, to put forth their best fight and conquer what battle they're fighting. Whether a child's favorite superhero is Batman, Superman or Cinderella while wearing a "Brave Gown" they will believe that can take on any illness! Brave Gowns are hospital gowns that are screen printed like costumes and make children feel brave! When a child walks in to a room for a procedure and they get asked what their favorite character is, they will get to choose which "Brave Gown" to wear. Mickey Mouse, Batman, Superman, a pumpkin, Elf, Princess, a musician, a cheerleader, etc...anything that represents a piece of the child's personality! No more dingy pastel gowns that make these kids feel hopeless. Children will feel in control and strong like Superman, happy like Mickey Mouse or cool as a cucumber like their favorite rockstar! Children have very limited control in their daily lives and especially when going through treatment for an illness. Becoming a superhero will allow them to access some sense of power during this scary time.