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'''Lady Curzon's peacock dress''' is a [[gown]] made of [[Goldwork (embroidery)|gold and silver thread]] designed by Jean-Philippe Worth for [[Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston]] to celebrate the 1902 [[Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra]] at the second [[Delhi Durbar]] in 1903.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Chrisman-Campbell|first=Kimberly|title=Worn on This Day: the Clothes That Made History|date=2019|publisher=Running Press|isbn=978-0-7624-9357-9|location=Philadelphia|pages=6–7|oclc=1089571878}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Thomas|first=Nicola J.|date=2007|title=Embodying imperial spectacle: dressing Lady Curzon, Vicereine of India 1899-1905|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44251153|journal=Cultural Geographies|volume=14|issue=3|pages=369–400|issn=1474-4740}}</ref><br />
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The gown was assembled from panels of [[Chiffon (fabric)|chiffon]] that had been embroidered and embellished by [[Delhi]] and [[Agra]] craftsmen using the [[zardozi]] (gold wire weaving) method.<ref>[http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/107881 The Peacock Dress] object record on the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty]] website</ref> It was then shipped to Paris, where the [[House of Worth]] styled the dress with a long train edged with white chiffon roses. The worked panels were overlapping peacock feathers that had a blue-green [[Beetlewing|beetlewing]] at the center. Over time, the metal thread in the dress has tarnished but the beetle wings have not lost their luster.<ref name=":0" /> The gown weighs over {{Convert|4.5|kg}}.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">[https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/kedleston-hall/features/lady-mary-curzons-peacock-dress Lady Mary Curzon's Peacock Dress] featured on National Trust website for Kedleston Hall</ref> <br />
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The Viceroy, [[Lord Curzon]], organized the second [[Delhi Durbar]] in 1903 to celebrate the 1902 coronation of [[King Edward VII]], "the grandest pageant in history", which created a tremendous sensation. The dress was featured in a ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' article because Lady Curzon was from Chicago. State portraits were ordered from the artist [[William Logsdail]], but Lady Curzon's portrait was completed in 1909 after her death in 1906. The peacock dress is preserved, together with the Logsdail portrait, at [[Kedleston Hall]].<ref name=":1" /><br />
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Lady Curzon was instrumental in promoting the use of Indian embroidery in Western fashion, and many of her friends ordered gowns from Worth using such decorations, though they generally used much less metal threadwork which weighed her dress down. Another of her embroidered [[Court dress|court dresses]], assembled by the House of Worth in 1903, is on display at the [[Fashion Museum, Bath]].<br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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File:William Logsdail - George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.jpg|[[William Logsdail]], 1909, ''[[George Nathaniel Curzon]], Marquess Curzon'', oil on canvas<br />
File:Mary Leiter, Lady Curzon, wearing a 1903 gown by Jean-Philippe Worth.jpg|Albert Edward Jeakins, 1903, Lady Curzon wearing the peacock dress.<br />
File:Lady Curzon's peacock gown - Chicago Tribune 27 September 1903.jpg|front cover of the Chicago Tribune 27 September 1903<br />
File:George Curzon and Mary Curzon on the elephant Lakshman Prasad 1902-12-29 in Delhi.jpg|Lord and Lady Curzon arriving at the Delhi Durbar in 1903<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924010093056#page/n537/mode/1up Embroidered gowns] for Lady Curzon in the official catalogue of the 1903 Delhi Durbar<br />
*[http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1903/09/27/page/60/article/lady-curzons-peacock-gown Lady Curzon's peacock gown] in the Chicago Tribune, 27 September 1903<br />
*[http://www.trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/index.php/component/k2/item/10514-lady-curzons-peacock-dress Lady Curzon's peacock dress] on website of the Textile Research Center, Leiden<br />
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