With Tom Hanks starring as Fred Rogers in the new biopic A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and the critical acclaim of the 2018 documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Mister Rogers hype is at an all-time high. We can all aspire to be like Mister Rogers — but in the meantime, maybe it’s enough to dress like him? While you can’t quite raid his closet, you can come pretty close to accurately recreating his outfits.

Tom Hanks isn’t the only one capable of making a realistic transformation into Mister Rogers. Whether it’s a Halloween costume, cosplay, or you just want to be more like the TV legend, here’s what you need to buy to dress exactly like Mister Rogers.

And, yes, we’re going to absolutely ignore that “sexy Mister Rogers” costume that ruined the soul of the internet a few weeks back.

The Sweater

Credit: National Museum of American History — Smithsonian Institution

Mister Rogers’ sweaters were the most iconic part of his wardrobe, so if you’re going for accuracy, it’s important to get this part of your get-up just right. Most of the sweaters he wore on the show were knit by his real-life mother, so you usually can’t track them down to a retailer, but you can get pretty close.

Rogers’ sweaters came in a variety of colors, but he’s most known for his bright red one. When Mister Rogers Neighborhood first went on air, he had button-up sweaters, but after finding it took too long to button live on camera, he switched to zippers. So where can you find this?

If you’ve tried looking, the first thing you probably googled was “Mister Rogers Halloween costume” — and you were likely met with an alleged costume that just felt off.

Credit: Amazon

The “Be My Neighbor” costume kit from California Costumes is an unofficial, Mister Rogers-esque costume, complete with a red zip-up sweater, two “hand puppets,” and a vinyl wig. We’ll get to those accessories later, but the biggest problem here is that the sweater is just way off.

Rogers’ sweaters didn’t have a collar like the one in this costume. In fact, they were really cardigans, which this is just not. This one is also missing the intricate design running along each side of the zipper that was commonly seen on the sweaters Rogers wore on TV.