Freddie Mercury's silk floral shirt, Garden Lodge, 1991

Freddie Mercury’s silk floral shirt, Garden Lodge

A short-sleeved silk shirt, the black ground printed with a pattern of flowers and foliage in shades of green, fuchsia, purple, red and bronze, left breast pocket, fastening with dark mother-of-pearl buttons, labelled ‘Silks’; with a pair of black cotton loose trousers with elasticated waist and two-button fastening, labelled ‘Sweetheart Ibiza’ – Freddie is captured in a photograph by Jim Hutton in the garden of Garden Lodge with his ginger cat, Oscar, wearing this shirt, spring 1991

(qty 2)

LITERATURE

‘Somebody To Love, The Life, Death And Legacy Of Freddie Mercury’, Matt Richards & Mark Langthorne, Blink Publishing, 2017 paperback edition, illus. next to p.297