Freddie Mercury's leisure wear – 1980s

Freddie Mercury’s leisure wear

Five leisure garments comprising:

a v-necked blouson jacket emerald of green textured cotton with batwing sleeves, the front with white felt badge ‘Rafting School’, with white and green knitted collar, cuffs, pockets and hem, labelled ‘Ciao’; a white t-shirt with black trim to neck and sleeves, labelled ‘Sportswear’, the label additionally inscribed in an unknown hand in black felt pen ‘M A S’; a plain white t-shirt labelled ‘St. Michael’; a pale blue and white striped t-shirt, similarly labelled; and a bright green and black striped t-shirt, labelled ‘GAP’

(qty 5)

Plain white t-shirts with a coloured trim to the neck and arms was a very popular style of t-shirt with Freddie; there are several other examples in this auction with different coloured trim and lot 59 shows Freddie wearing an identical black trim example to that included in this lot, in the same lot we can see Freddie wearing a red trim example included in lot 226 with the biker jacket seen in the photograph. See also Lots 2231, 2233, 2262 and 2165 for other examples.