Freddie Mercury's Hawaiian shirts, including photo worn 'Surfing' shirt, 1980s

Freddie Mercury’s Hawaiian shirts, including photo worn 'Surfing' shirt

Four short-sleeved shirts including three Hawaiian shirts, comprising:

-a white shirt printed with a pattern of surfers and palm trees in pale yellow, blue, red and brown, repeat printed in blue ‘Gods of the Sea’ and ‘Surfing’, with left breast pocket, labelled ‘PING PONG’ – Freddie captured in a photograph by Richard Young holding his cat Tiffany;

-a white shirt printed with a pattern of Native American motifs in blue, yellow and red, repeat printed in blue ‘Indean tepee’ / ‘Tom-tom’ and ‘Buffalo’, left breast pocket, fastening with white plastic buttons, label missing but probably ‘PING PONG’;

-a white shirt printed with a pattern of sailing boats and palm trees in yellow, red, orange and brown, left breast pocket, labelled ‘Hawaiian Shirt’;

-and another shirt printed in pale and dark blue with a pattern of exotic birds and foliage, with left breast pocket, labelled ‘St. Michael’

(qty 4) 

LITERATURE

‘Freddie Mercury A Life In His Own Words’, Mercury Songs Ltd, 2006 for photos of Freddie wearing the ‘Surfing’ shirt with his cats Oscar and Tiffany, 1986, between pp. 144 & 145