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

‍