The Victorians loved to "overdo" things. If one feather in a hat was good then ten feathers was ten times as good. If one had a party frock, a school dress, and an everyday dress, then one must have a visiting dress, a walking costume, an afternoon dress, and most certainly for a day at the water's edge, a seaside frock. And if a young girl donned her seaside frock for the day, then dolly must go along in her own seaside frock.

The seaside frock consists of a two-piece dress and tam-o-shanter hat, both with interesting hand worked details. The sleeveless dress, made from a vintage wool challis garment, has an anchor embroidered on the bodice front. Cindy also hand embroidred motifs around the pleated skirt of the dress, the jacket collar and the sleeves.

The tam is made from a vintage wool felt hat, has a pom-pom on top and a fully finished pigskin leather band around the base which has been foil embossed with the French word L'Espiegle, meaning "frolicsome" or "mischievous." Cindy found a local bookbinder who willingly supplied the appropriate leather and did the embossing for a very reasonable fee.

To match the red trim on the frock, Cindy designed a sampler trimmed with a popular trim of the period-- red rickrack. She embroidered Amelia's name and date on the sampler.