Secret Honey Anna Skating Dress Casual

Hello everyone and welcome to a new post Today I am showing you another treasure from my collection: The casual version of Anna’s Skating dress from Secret Honey from 2016. This is the perfect Anna Disneybound, right?

I showcase one of my Disney pieces every two weeks, you can check out my other posts if you like. Last time I showed you my Prince Hans Coat.

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How to buy Secret Honey: A brief overview on several ways to get your hands on Secret Honey casual pieces and costumes. Including recommendations for resellers etc.
How to buy Secret Honey with Buyee: Detailed post with many screenshots detailing how to use the service Buyee to buy Secret Honey (or other stuff, of course) from Japanese websites such as mercari.jp
Of Remakes and Fakes: There are remakes of Secret Honey (costumes in particular) that are being sold. In this post I share some thoughts about the topic as well as a photo comparison of an original Secret Honey dress and a remake (spoiler: they are different).

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The Anna Skating Dress

I absolutely love this 2016 version of Anna’s Skating dress. It is so close to her original dress, uses different fabrics with different textures, has embroidery and a beautiful print. Compared to it, the 2014 version is quite simple. But I still love that one for sentimental reasons. Here is the post about the 2014 skating dress and blouse, in case you are interested.

Now, me in the dress from the front:

Here’s the dress from the side. You can see that I did not close the cuffs. I could, but they are tight so I prefer to have them open.

Here’s the dress from the back. Look at the pattern matching at the centre back seam above the hem… Haaah, Secret Honey has such good quality, I love that they pay attention to stuff like this.

The Facts

If I remember correctly this dress was released in only one store. Whenever I see it on mercari it is priced very high. It seems to be quite rare unfortunately.

Size and Closure

The dress closes with a hidden zipper and a hook and an eye in the back. The waistline in the back is elasticated and allows up to almost 80 cm in the waist.

The bodice is elasticated at the top of the neckline in the back, but it only extends 1-2 cm. There is a shirring panel with lacing as well. the bodice closes with a zipper on the side.

Measurements

I am giving you the measurements of the bodice, since the bodice is smaller than the dress itself. (Amateur-)measured with shirring extended:

Chest: 94 cm (will be tight)
Waist: 78 cm

Fit on me

I do like how the dress and bodice look on me together. However, the bodice of the dress is too short for my torso, the waistline sits right beneath my bust. Also the sleeves are too short on me which makes the cuffs barely fit over my forearms. Which is why I tend to wear them open. The chest area of the bodice is also on the tighter side on me. But hey, it works. I do like the length of the skirt. It might hit you beneath the knees depending on how tall you are.

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The Bodice

Let us start by having a look at the beautiful bodice. It is made from a textured fabric and bound in a velour like fabric. Lined of course and with a bone in the centre front to keep it from wrinkling:

In the centre front we have two rows with four buttons each that are connected with braided trim.

The buttons are covered with a green satin fabric and have a silver Arendelle emblem in the middle:

I wanted to add a photo showing the texture of the fabric as well. It is like a herringbone texture, I like it quite a lot it makes the bodice look very interesting in a close up.

Dress in Action

The Dress

The dress has many cute and subtle details that pick up the beautiful embroidery on Anna’s original skating dress. Let’s have a look.

The Shirt Part

The collar and centre front of the shirt are embroidered with blue and golden thread which is nice and sparkly. The embroidery at the seams where the collar is stitched on matches pretty nicely which again speaks for Secret Honey’s quality. Mind you that my dress is untagged.

The metal clasp is fully functional eventhough it does not have to close anything. It tends to open itself but since it is stitched down at three points it is not really visible if this happens.

The embroidery is nice and dense and I love the gold thread. It is not too warm and not too cool toned. Something in between, a really nice colour for the sage green fabric. The embroidery does go all the way down to the waistband.

The cuffs are also embroidered in gold and blue and close with three self covered buttons.

The Skirt

The skirt has two layers as usual. A sage green lining layer as well as the heavier fashion fabric with the print on top. The hem of the fashion layer fabric is invisible from the outside, on this picture you can see the little stitches that secure it without showing on the outside.

The print around the hem mainly represents the embroidery on Anna’s Sakting dress in the movie. I really like that the print is done in thread like strokes that make it look a bit like embroidered. Here is an overview over the two embroidery elements:

There are also two motives one showing Anna and Elsa and one Anna by herself. Beneath them is the lower part of the small embroidery pattern. These prints do not repeat in the back, just the embroidery motives that I also have detail shots of for you:

I have one last picture of me wearing the dress for you before I leave you for today 🙂 I absolutely adore this dress. This is one of the ones I will probably never give away. I love the design, perfect Anna Disneybound if you go to the park.

And that is everything I have for you today. I hope you enjoyed this special post about the 2016 version of Anna’s Skating Dress and loved looking at all of the pretty details together with me. I wish you a good one and hope to see you in my next post

Love,
Ella