Design for a wedding dress

Design for a peach coloured wedding dress with a fitted bodice with shirt collar. The bodice finishes in a scallop shape. There are gathers across the bust with buttons and ties at the centre front. The skirt is very full with two graduating lines of scallops and a train at the back. Long fitted sleeves extend beyond the wrist. The dress is worn with a long veil and floral head dress and accessorised with a prayer book.
The paper is watermarked ‘ORIGINAL TURKEY MILL KENT’.
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.