Freddie Mercury's photo worn Hawaiian shirt, 1980s

Freddie Mercury’s photo worn Hawaiian shirt

A short-sleeved Hawaiian shirt printed with a pattern of boats, palm trees, fishermen and buildings in varying shades of blue, green, yellow and red, two breast pockets, fastening with white plastic buttons, labelled ‘Shangri-la’ – worn by Freddie in the early 1980s; with a pair of petrol blue nylon combat-style trousers, 1980s, with three zip pockets to legs and one to back pocket, the lower leg with zip to inside seam at hem, labelled ‘Panno d’or….U.S.A.’

(qty 2)

Hawaiian shirts were a favourite off-stage garment of Freddie’s from the late 1970s onwards - see lot 60, The Evening Sale, for polaroids of Freddie wearing this shirt, early 1980s