Gold Baraat Lehenga Choli with Scalloped Floral Hem

Design and silhouette

A fitted blouse meets a wide, flared lehenga, with two contrasting dupattas completing the look. The blouse is cut in tissue with a square front neckline, a round back neckline and half sleeves. Large mirrored gold motifs curl across the chest on either side of a narrow vertical trim, and each sleeve ends in its own decorated edge.

The lehenga, also in tissue, is built with panels, 14 kalis and cancan to support its broad ghera, and it has no trail. Gold is the main colour, with rust and copper undertones showing through the metallic surface. Small floral sprigs are spaced across the skirt with open ground between them; towards the hem the work closes into a darker, lattice-like band of gold floral scrollwork, finished by a scalloped edge.

The two dupattas are in champagne and wine. The champagne dupatta is translucent, with small scattered motifs and a broad, dense floral-gold border; the wine dupatta carries fine reflective dots and a narrower gold trim.

Specifications

• Pieces: blouse, lehenga and dupatta, with two dupattas in champagne and wine
• Colour: gold, with rust, wine and champagne accents
• Fabric: tissue blouse and lehenga; dupattas in zari net and tissue; silk lined
• Embroidery: antique-gold dabka, kora, sequin work, stone work, salma sitara and zari work, with beads and sequins
• Embroidery placement: full front, sleeves, lehenga ghera and dupatta border
• Blouse: short length; square front neckline, round back neckline; half sleeves
• Lehenga: 14 kalis, panelled, with cancan; no trail
• Closure: concealed zip, hook & eye
• Sizing: standard and custom sizes, custom stitched to measurements; full custom design available
• Weight: around 7 kg

Copper beneath the gold

Gold is the name this dress carries, yet its surface keeps leaning towards copper. In daylight, the long radial folds of this gold Baraat lehenga choli catch sharp metallic highlights; under warmer light the same ground deepens to rust. Because the base is never a flat yellow, the antique-gold work sitting on it looks burnished rather than gilded.

The embroidery is placed with restraint. Mirrored, curling motifs crowd the blouse on either side of its narrow central trim, holding the eye at the chest. Below, the skirt opens into wide ground with only small sprigs, so the polished surface is left to show. Then the hem gathers everything in again: a dark lattice-like band, heavy gold scrollwork and a rim of rounded scallops. With the field kept quiet, that border gives the broad ghera its weight and a clear edge.

Two dupattas finish the reading. Champagne, translucent and framed in a thick floral edge, lifts one side; wine, flecked with fine points of light, deepens the other. One warms the copper. The other darkens it.

Occasion and styling

Named for the Baraat, this lehenga choli suits the Nikkah and Walima as well. For the Baraat, wear both dupattas as photographed: the champagne dupatta over the head as a veil, the wine dupatta falling from the opposite shoulder. For a lighter Nikkah or Walima look, either dupatta can be worn on its own.

Antique-gold jewellery picks up the tone of the embroidery, and bangles in wine or pink keep the warm palette consistent. Jewellery, bags and other accessories in the photographs are styling only and are not part of the outfit. See the full gold bridal lehenga collection.