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Comprising blue/white striped jumpsuit with flared tool pockets, red leather flight jacket, and brown leather flight cap with applique bead-edged emblem of an airplane propeller and gray inner helmet. Generally excellent condition. The costume was worn by Shirley Temple as her character, Shirley Blake, in numerous scenes of the 1934 film "Bright Eyes", and is especially prominent in the opening scenes as she thumbs a ride to the airport to visit her best friend, "Loop" Merritt (James Dunn). Included with the costume are several studio photographs of Shirley wearing the costume. The costume was a particular favorite of the young actress. She wrote of it in her 1988 autobiography, Child Star, describing a scene taking place at the Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale, "I posed in a red leather flying jacket and airman's cap with dangling earflaps and a propeller insignia with each vane curved like a pinwheel."