Hail to the Briefs.
A pair of underwear worn by President John F. Kennedy long before his time in the Oval Office has sold at auction in Los Angeles for $9,100.
The ivory cotton snap-fly boxer shorts, featuring a hand-sewn label embroidered with the late leader of the free world’s nickname, Jack, reportedly date back to his stint in the Navy during the 1940s.
Kennedy famously served as commander of the torpedo boat PT-109 in the Solomon Islands during World War II — barely escaping death after being rammed by a Japanese destroyer.
The auction also included a black Alternative brand hoodie worn “on numerous occasions” by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg back in 2010 — when the tech titan was named “Person of The Year” by Time Magazine.
While only estimated to sell at around $1,000, a modest bidding war drove the price up to a whopping $15,875.
The lucky purchaser received a handwritten note from the Meta macher, reading: “One of my favorite old-school Facebook hoodies. I wore this all the time in the early days. It even has our original mission statement on the inside lining. Enjoy! — Mark Zuckerberg”.
Meanwhile, one of the signature bowties worn by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs snagged an eye-popping $35,750 — thirty-five times above its estimate of $1,000.
Jobs is said to have worn the green Wilkes Bashford brand bow tie with pink stripes to two different photo shoots for a Macintosh computer launch back in 1984, as well as at a conference in Aspen in 1983 and an annual shareholder’s meeting in 1984.
Auctions of celebrity clothing — intimate and otherwise — are far from out of the ordinary.
Former royalty including Queen Elizabeth have had their unmentionables raffled off in recent years, while convicted fraudster Bernie Madoff’s boxers went for $1,700 back in 2010.
“It’s a great Christmas gift to people because it’s not something they would buy for themselves,” said the lucky winner of the latter, at the time.
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