Design for a coat

Design for a wide, straight, knee length red coat. It has a round neckline with one button which fastens at the centre front neck. The scarf collar ties at the centre front. There are four tucks at the back neckline below the collar. The deep raglan sleeves are seven-eighths length and are top stitched. The two vertical welt hip pockets are also top stitched. There is a sketch of the back view of the coat at the bottom right. The coat is worn with white gloves.
Written in the top left corner is ‘792’. Printed below is ‘Victor Stiebel’. On the mount cover, erased but still visible, is ‘792 red coat tie neckline’.
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.