Freddie Mercury's Hawaiian shirts, 1980s

Freddie Mercury’s Hawaiian shirts

Three short-sleeved Hawaiian cotton shirts comprising:

a black shirt printed with a pattern of palm trees, huts, sails and canoes in green, red and brown, fastening with black buttons with white lettering ‘coconut usa’, labelled ‘Coconut Shirt Company’;

a bright yellow shirt printed with an exotic floral design in fuchsia pink, turquoise and black, left breast pocket, fastening with opaque plastic buttons, unlabelled; and

a white shirt printed with a design of bright green palm trees and orange and pink vintage cars, repeat printed in orange lettering ‘The Moon’, fastening with imitation mother-of-pearl buttons, labelled ‘quenk’

(qty 3)

Hawaiian shirts were a favourite off stage garment of Freddie’s from the late 1970s onwards.