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Description: | Tehera Khan's wedding suit is made from heavy red gold brocade.
The skirt is called a
shalwara, which means it has two very
wide-legged bottoms. The short-style kameez is made of
silk.
Mrs Tahera Khan was born in Zimbabwe. She came to
England in 1977 to complete her postgraduate studies in
teaching. In 1980 she married her husband, Shahid Dastgir Khan
and came to live in Redbridge.
Tahera and Shahid got married
in Southall, west London, as she was living there at the time
with her family. They all helped with the preparations for the
wedding ceremony. Shahid's family gave Tahera her wedding suit,
which is a Muslim custom. After the wedding Mrs Khan came to
Ilford to live with her husband's family. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Redbridge Museum | Rights holder: | Redbridge Museum | Subjects: | Migration and Citizenship | Temporal: | 1980 | Source: | Redbridge Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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