Freddie Mercury's leisure wear, 1980s

Freddie Mercury’s leisure wear

Five leisure garments comprising:

a mustard yellow and white striped cotton blouson jacket, elasticated cuffs and hem, diagonal pockets, yellow zip fastening, lined in yellow cotton, unlabelled; a white t-shirt with fuchsia trim to neck and arms, label removed; a pale yellow t-shirt with low scooped neck, labelled ‘Zimmel’; a primrose yellow and grey striped t-shirt, labelled ‘St.Michael’; and a fuchsia pink and orange striped t-shirt with a pattern of small roses, labelled ‘GAP’

(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 shots in lot 60 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, 2165, 2262 and 2265 for other examples.