Lot Essay
Hendrix apparently gave Berenson this shirt to take to his mother in July 1968 at The Woburn Festival. By the time it was embroidered Hendrix had gone to the States.
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Jimi Hendrix
A shirt of pink satin hand-embroidered on the front with a pattern of flamingos and trees in multi-coloured silks; accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Ralph Berenson stating that this shirt was owned and worn by Hendrix who gave him the shirt to be embroidered by his mother ..My mother had embroidered various articles for such people as Eric Clapton, Keith Richard and Paul Kosssof...Jimi Hendrix had seen Clapton wearing an embroidered shirt and wanted something similar... (2)
A shirt of pink satin hand-embroidered on the front with a pattern of flamingos and trees in multi-coloured silks; accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Ralph Berenson stating that this shirt was owned and worn by Hendrix who gave him the shirt to be embroidered by his mother ..My mother had embroidered various articles for such people as Eric Clapton, Keith Richard and Paul Kosssof...Jimi Hendrix had seen Clapton wearing an embroidered shirt and wanted something similar... (2)