Design for an evening dress

Design for a sleeveless, full length evening dress of white floral fabric. It has a fitted bodice with a shallow yoke extending from shoulder to shoulder, producing a round neckline. The front of the bodice is embroidered. A full length sash is draped in folds at the front over the stomach and tied at the centre back. The skirt is straight with what looks like a vent from the centre back to the knee. There is a sketch of the back of the dress on the right. The dress is worn with long white gloves.
Printed below is ‘Victor Stiebel’. Written on the back is ‘Jakin film 549’.
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.