The vest worn by Matthew Broderick during the classic 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is up for auction, where it is expected to fetch up to $600,000. The vest, which is currently owned by ESPN sports reporter Darren Rovell, comes bundled with a baseball used in the movie, a ticket stub from from the Chicago Cubs vs. Montreal Expos game on Sept. 24, 1985, where director John Hughes filmed one of the movie’s most iconic scenes, and ticket stubs for the movie from its initial release in 1986, signed by Broderick. The vest, which has “pilling and loose threads consistent with age and production-use,” was designed by Hughes’ costume collaborator Marilyn Vance, who found the camel- and chocolate-colored sweater at a store in Chicago and turned it into a vest. It was previously owned by Hughes, who died in 2009, before coming into Rovell’s possession. International auction house Sotheby’s, which is facilitating the sale, predicts it will sell for between $300,000 and $600,000, with starting bids priced at $100,000. The auction closes June 24.
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