The chikan work ways back to the time of Nawabs of Avadh, and its origin is from Lucknow.

This is known as chikankari, and can be done on sarees or lehengas, long flowing skirt worn by women in many parts of India. Rajasthan and Gujarat's traditional wear is lehenga.

With the passage of time, many changes have sneaked into the regular lehenga, and today's generation has the facility to choose what they want. The combination of art of Lucknow, chikankari with the tradition of Rajasthan and Gujarat, lehenga resulted in Chikan lehenga.

With wonderful, artistic and elegant designs embroidered on the lehenga, it is liked by homemakers, office-goers, and college students.

Chikan embroidered lehengas can be worn during casual parties like office parties, or college parties, or get together of the household people, or birthday parties, and during traditional festivals and occasions like wedding, reception, and so on.

Floral patterns with hand sewn buta embroidery, murri embroidery, geometrical patterns, mythological patterns, and so on are the popular ones that can make the lehenga attractive, artistic and worth spending.

The chikan embroidered lehengas are more expensive than the normal embroidered lehenga or plain lehenga due to the artistic work that involves hard work, concentration, skilled finger, creative thinking, painful hours of work, and quality materials and the stylish, appropriate finish.

Chikan embroidery can be combined with bead or stone work to give a rich appearance to the wearer.

The chikan embroidery lehenga can be etched with real gold thread or silver flowers would be heights of imagination.

Buying these lehengas would be easier but without proper maintenance, the life of these lehengas would not be more.