Freddie Mercury's brown leather U.S. flight jacket, worn on tour, with Levi jeans, 1980, and a red T-shirt, 1978

Freddie Mercury's brown leather U.S. flight jacket, worn on tour, with Levi jeans, 1980, and a red T-shirt, 1978

The brown leather jacket with dark brown imitation fur collar, two patch pockets to front with press stud fastening and integral side pockets, dark brown knitted cuffs and hem, shoulder tabs with press stud fastening, lined in cream imitation sheepskin, labelled ‘FLIGHT JACKET / BY SCHOTT / N.Y.C. / I-S-674-M-S’; a pair of pale blue denim ‘Levi 501’ jeans with button fly, ‘Levi Strauss & Co’ label (very faded and distressed) to rear waistband, the right back pocket with red and pale blue ‘Levi’s’ tab [interior care/size label indistinct]; and a red cotton T-shirt, printed on the front in black and white ‘SAN FRANCISCO ARENA / MCMLXXVIII’ [1978]

(qty 3)

This jacket can be seen in photographs of Freddie at a soundcheck at the Budokan, Toyko, February 1981.

See lot 59, Polaroid No.227, showing Freddie wearing this jacket during a Peter Hince photoshoot in Munich in 1981

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