Freddie Mercury's leisure wear – 1980s

Freddie Mercury’s leisure wear

Five leisure garments, majority 1980s, comprising:

a royal blue casual jacket of sweatshirt material with ‘Boom International Sportswear’ logo to front, with elasticated cuffs and hem, two zip pockets and white metal press stud fastening to front, unlabelled; a pale blue t-shirt with navy blue trim to neck and sleeves, unlabelled; a sky blue short-sleeved shirt with ‘Wrangler’ logo to breast pocket, similarly labelled; a bright yellow and green striped T-shirt with a pattern of small roses, labelled ‘GAP’; and a plain white t-shirt, labelled ‘St.Michael’

(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 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 lots 2165, 2233, 2262 and 2265 for other examples.