Design for a suit

Design for a tan coloured suit. The straight, single breasted, hip length jacket has a round neckline and four buttons at the centre front. The centre front and neck edges are top stitched. It has three-quarter length, straight, set in sleeves. There is a wide tie at the waist. The flared, knee length skirt has flat centre front panels with two hip darts and three single pleats stitched to the mid hipline at the sides. There is a sketch of the back of the suit at the bottom right. The suit is worn with white gloves.
Written in the top left corner is ‘258’. Printed below is ‘Victor Stiebel’. The paper is watermarked ‘Criterion Bond’.
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.