Secret Honey Aurora Greeting Dress

Hello everyone, welcome back to another post. Today, I would like to show you this Aurora Greeting dress from Secret Honey. This dress is super pretty and captures Aurora’s princess dress so perfectly. I have the blue version, but it is also available in pink for all the pink lovers out there.

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 Secret Honey Rapunzel Map Dress.

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The Aurora Greeting Dress

This dress has been on my wishlist for the longest time. I am definitely team blue and this dress captures Aurora’s ballgown so well. Especially the detail at the waist. The fabric choices and all the pleats and trims are very pretty in my opinion. It is super detailed. Here it is on my dress form from the front:

This dress originally cost 18000 yen plus taxes and was released in February 2016. Here you can see the dress from the side:

And here it is from the back.

Sizing and Closure

This dress is very small. The shirring part does extend a little bit more than my dress forms size, but I don’t think that a waist of more than 70 cm will be comfortable. Also in the bust, much more than 90 cm will not fit. But luckily, the sleeves are elasticated, so at least, the armholes are not too tight like on other dresses.

The dress closes with a hidden side zipper:

The Bodice

The bodice is very pretty, made from a blue patterned fabric, decorated with trim and it has this nice detail over the neckline. To be honest, I did not quite know how to put that pleated fabric layer. I got it to a nice place for the photos, but I think, it will not be the best dress to wear out and about because you will always have to have an eye on it.

Here is a closer look at the pattern on the blue fabric. Pretty, isn’t it?

And here is my favourite detail, the waistline. The fabric here isn’t printed anymore which makes it stand out even more. The edges of the detail all lead into the pleats of the skirt which I find super clever.

Here is a look at the different trims used for this bodice. There is no bone in the bodice as you can see. But the trim stabilizes the seams a bit and of course makes the interesting seaming on Aurora’s bodice stand out more:

And last but not least, a closer look at the neckline. The two pieces cross in the middle, which looks interesting.

I “unfolded” the pleats towards the shoulders to make it look nicer:

The Skirt

The skirt of the Aurora Greeting Dress is very, very nice, made from a sheer cotton-like fabric. It is pleated in the centre front and at the sides. There are also two pleats in the back, thankfully not in the centre back, that would have looked a bit funny.

The Layers

The skirt has two layers, a satin lining and the fashion layer with the print. As you can see, the top layer is not one piece of fabric, the printed pieces were sewn to the pleated pieces, that have no print.

The Print

From top to bottom, there are pink roses printed onto the print panels of the skirt:

We also have animals, here is a bird for example:

And then of course, we have a print showing Aurora. There are two different motives that are repeated around the hem of the skirt. Here is the first one, showing Aurora sleeping as well as Maleficent as the dragon fighting with Prince Philipp.

The second one is my favourite, I used to love this scene in the movie so much. Aurora dancing with the animals of the forest who play her prince 🙂

And that is already it for today 🙂 I hope you enjoyed having a look at this beautiful Aurora Greeting dress together with me. Thanks a lot for reading and I hopefully see you in my next post.

Love,
Ella