Design for a suit

Design for a brown and grey checked suit. It has a hip length, single breasted, boxy jacket with a rever collar with wing lapels and four buttons at the centre front. There are two crossway patch pockets at the hips. There is a centre back seam with two waist darts at the back. The full length, straight, set in sleeves have buttoned two-piece turnback wing cuffs. The straight skirt reaches to the knee and has two inverted pleats at the front and a centre back vent. There is a sketch of the back view of the suit to the right. The suit is worn with a red scarf beneath and white gloves.
Written in the top left corner is ‘494’. Printed below is ‘Victor Stiebel’.
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.