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Key events would include the Royal Garden Party, Goodwood, Wimbledon, Ascot and Cowes, coming-out dances and summer balls. \r\n\r\nThis dress is said to have been worn for a ball at Wilton House and reflects the designer Victor Stiebel's (1907-76) interest in historical dress.","physicalDescription":"Evening dress of striped turquoise and white silk taffeta, overlaid with matching blue, wild silk organza.  \r\n\r\nThe dress is strapless with a full length flaring skirt trimmed from knee to hem with a deep flounce.  The blue organza is draped over bodice and skirt caught up at the centre back to suggest a bustle and to allow view of the skirt flounce.\r\n\nThe bodice is boned but not lined.\r\n\r\nIt fastens at the centre back with a white metal zip.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Victor Stiebel","id":"A2541"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"x36960"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Silk taffeta","id":"x34754"},{"text":"organza","id":"x30432"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Silk taffeta overlaid with matching wild silk organza, boned","categories":[{"text":"Fashion","id":"THES48957"},{"text":"Womenswear","id":"THES49044"},{"text":"Clothing","id":"THES48975"},{"text":"Evening wear","id":"THES48999"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&F","id":"THES48601"},"images":["2006AU1436","2006AU1435","2006AU1434","2006AU1433"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES307858"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Evening dress","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1955","earliest":"1955-01-01","latest":"1955-12-31"},"association":{"text":"designed","id":"x29338"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Cecil Beaton","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Circumference","value":"96","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"bust","note":""},{"dimension":"Circumference","value":"64","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"waist","note":""},{"dimension":"Circumference","value":"300","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"hem","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Lady Diana Herbert was reputed to have worn this dress for her much reported ball at Wilton House in 1955. (Wilton House is the seat of the Earl of Pembroke, and Lady Diana Herbert the sister of the Earl)\r\n\r\nWhen this dress was displayed in \"The Cutting Edge\", and this provenance reported in the accompanying book, Lady Diana Herbert contacted the Museum to say that she had never seen it before.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Evening dress of silk taffeta and wild silk organza, probably designed by Victor Stiebel, made in London, 1955  ","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Illustration by Jacques Demachy showing similar strapless striped gown by Victor Stiebel published in Harper's Bazaar, May 1952 p.53. The original illustration now in the V&A, museum number E.686-1997.\r\n\r\nThe magazine caption to the artwork reads 'white-and-black pinstripe nylon - yards of it - for this strapless dress by Stiebel. He swathes the minute waist in grey <i>peau-de-soie</i>, spreads a trail of crimson moss-roses across the <i>panier</i> of the skirt. At Jacqmar.'\r\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Haute couture","id":"THES48861"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Evening dress\r\nVictor Stiebel (1907-76)\r\nLondon\r\n1955\r\n\r\nBritish fashion magazines such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar presented the London collections with the social calendar in mind, from the Royal Garden Party, Goodwood, Wimbledon, Ascot and Cowes to coming-out dances and summer balls. 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