Design for an evening dress

Design for an evening dress of white and turquoise patterned fabric. It has a sleeveless crossover bodice with a low V-shaped neckline at the centre front. The sketch of the back view on the right shows a V-shaped neckline at the back and deep tucks at the centre back. Tucks below the bust and at the shoulders give shape to the bodice. The turquoise ruched midriff band extends to the centre back and there is a floor length fan shaped train lined in turquoise extending from the upper edger of this band at the centre back. The straight, full length skirt has four darts at the waist. The dress is worn with long white gloves.
Fashion designer Victor Stiebel (1907-1976) was born in Durban in South Africa and came to Cambridge in 1924 to read architecture. After designing sets and costumes for the Footlights review, he decided to go into fashion design. Steibel started working for court dressmakers Reville in 1929. In 1932 he set up his own business at 21 Bruton Street in Mayfair. During World War II Stiebel enlisted in the Camouflage Division and also designed Utility clothing.
After the war, Stiebel worked for the Jacqmar fashion house in Grosvenor Street as Director of Couture, then in 1958 he re-opened his own establishment at 17 Cavendish Square. He retired in 1963 suffering from muscular sclerosis.
Stiebel produced romantic, understated clothes, specialising in evening wear and dressing high society figures and celebrities like Princess Margaret and Vivien Leigh.