Let's venture back to the early 1880s. As you can see, the "second bustle" era is getting under way, though at this stage the Girl's Own Paper is only talking about skirts being "fuller" at the back and not about the adoption of "bustles" or "dress improvers".
All skirts are decidedly fuller in the back-breadths, and short skirts are worn on all occasions, save very state ones; elderly ladies should wear them touching the ground indoors, and just clearing the ground when walking...
The other thing to note about this era in fashion are the "short" skirts. From the late 1860s all through the 1870s, fashionable skirts trailed on the ground. Even the shortest walk out of doors must have left wearers with filthy hems! In the 1880s, skirts would either just touch the ground or just clear it. The 1890s and 1900s would see long trained skirts return, only to disappear forever in the 1910s.
Waistcoats are used with every style of dress, both for morning and evening.
In the young girl's walking-dress for the spring the most useful and sensible form is given that I have seen. It is a kilted skirt, finishing in a flounce, and where the flounce begins there is a gathered puffing. The overskirt is quite plain, and gathered like a shawl from the left side. The Breton vest and jacket are intended for walking in, and are so simply braided and made, that it is within the power of any of our girls who have tried to make their own dresses to manage it...
The child's coat is made of a broché cloth... edged with velvet, and the hat is of felt with two silk tassels and a silk cord for its sole trimming.