As with most cultures, wedding garments represent possibly the most elaborate dress of the Peranakan community. While the wedding garments of the Peranakan Chinese community of Southeast Asia up till the early 20th century consistently reflect strong Chinese influence, there are also important regional, for example Singapore/Malacca, Penang, Sumatra, Java, stylistic differences. In this period, the Peranakan Chinese bride and groom would wear a few different robes for the different days of the wedding; resulting thus in the wide variety of wedding garments. The red velvet robe, with its refined gold thread embroidery executed in the tekat style, that is pure gold and silver thread beaten flat into wire, could have been made in Indonesia.
