Freddie Mercury's jackets, 1980s

Freddie Mercury’s jackets

A blouson jacket of navy blue padded nylon with ‘foul weather’ panel to front with button fastening, the sleeves with concealed knitted cuffs, two vertical slit pockets, lined in quilted navy blue satin with one interior pocket, labelled ‘Jun Men’; and a batwing sleeve cotton jacket with shoulder pads, printed with a black and white geometrical pattern, the back with a lion’s head print and ‘Rift Valley Textile Mills Ltd / Eldoret, Kenya’, two patch pockets, with elasticated hem lined in blue cotton with white lettering the same as that on the back, unlined, labelled ‘Sweetheart Ibiza’

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