Design for an evening dress

Design for a white evening dress with blue details. It has a fitted bodice with a shaped, low neckline. The left panel crosses over the centre front beneath the right bust and at the back it crosses to the left seam. The right bust panel is cut separately from blue fabric. The bodice extends to the hipline point at the centre front and back. It has two shoulder straps. The band at the hips follows the lower edge of the back bodice to a long blue tie with bows. There is a full length, full skirt with three horizontal darts on both hips. The skirt has two flared panels at the centre front and two large loose pleats at the front which continue to the back. The dress is worn with long white gloves. There is a back view of the dress to the right.
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.