By the late 1860s the puffed overskirt had reached the hipline, as in this striped silk dress worn in Toronto about 1869. The fitted bodice buttons down the front and is stitched to the skirt. The coat sleeves are now three-quarter length, an 1870s style. They are slit part way up the outer seam and are trimmed with sheer silk frills. The fringe is of silk cord threaded with beads.
The skirt is cut with gores at the sides, like the azure blue dress in illustration 16. The four pieces of the overskirt are only partly joined together. It has an "apron" front, a popular style in the first half of the 1870s. The frills are pinked and the dress is machine sewn except for finishing.
