Freddie Mercury's leisure wear, 1980s

Freddie Mercury’s leisure wear

Five leisure garments comprising:

a v-necked blouson jacket of cornflower blue cotton, two diagonal zip pockets, left breast pocket, padded shoulders, knitted black collar, cuffs and hem, labelled ‘SFERA’; a white t-shirt with pale pink trim to neck and arms, labelled ‘Sportswear’, the label additionally inscribed in black felt pen in an unknown hand ‘E E S’; a white cap-sleeved t-shirt labelled ‘pacorabanne paris’; a fuchsia and black striped t-shirt labelled ‘GAP’; and a pale blue t-shirt, the front with blue and red stripe and ‘COLT’ lettering, labelled ‘Screen Stars’

(qty 5)

Plain white t-shirts with a coloured trim to the neck and arms was a very popular style of t-shirt with Freddie; there are several other examples in this auction with different coloured trim and photos in lot 59 show Freddie wearing examples with black and red trim, the latter included in lot 226 with the biker jacket seen in the photograph. See also lot 2231, 2233, 2165 and 2265 for other examples.