Freddie Mercury's favourite leather jacket, 1980s, with Stars and Stripes T-shirt, 1970s

Freddie Mercury's favourite leather jacket, 1980s, with Stars and Stripes T-shirt, 1970s

A brown leather U.S. Air Force-style jacket, front pockets with concealed press stud fastening to flap, with integral vertical side slit pockets, with brown knitted cuffs and hem, khaki nylon quilted lining, labelled ‘Marquis de Suede, New York’; and a ‘Stars and Stripes’ cotton T-shirt, the blue body with white stars, the white sleeves with red stripes, labelled but indistinct, probably 1970s

See lot 60, Polaroid No. 254 for Freddie wearing a similar, but not identical, T-shirt to this one, with the black satin bomber jacket in lot 2198.

According to Peter Freestone this jacket, purchased in the U.S., was Freddie’s favourite leather jacket, as evidenced by the amount of wear it has sustained.