This red-wine coloured robe is richly embroidered with auspicious symbols in silk and gold thread couchings. At the centre of the piece is a peacock which is admired for its elegance, beauty and dignity. It also denotes rank and its accompanying traits, that is wealth and power. This robe would have been worn by the groom.Most garments worn during a Peranakan wedding were manufactured in China by skilled, professional embroiderers before being shipped to their Straits Chinese customers.
