Secret Honey Coronation Elsa Set and Cardigan

Hello everyone, welcome back to another post. Today, I would like to show you this beautiful Coronation Elsa Set and Cardigan from 2015 from Secret Honey. One of my all time favourites, I love Coronation Elsa and Secret Honey did such an amazing job with these pieces. Stay tuned for more in my next post 😉

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 Coronation Anna Knit Set.

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The Coronation Elsa Set

This set was released in September 2015 and the original price was 16000 yen plus taxes. It was released with two different skirt lengths, M and MT. I have a photo of me wearing the shorter skirt version from 2015. Ignore the trash bin in the background, I did not really take care what was in my pictures back then :D. Here you go:

The bodice is very small. But i found a trick, if it is too small, you can change the way it is laced in the back. The ribbon is too short to extend the shirring fully with it being laced the right way. So, when I gained a bit of weight, I laced the ribbon just through every second eyelit, which gave more space for the shirring to extend 🙂

Here are some photos of the set with the longer skirt. From the front:

Then here from the side:

And from the back. I also put this dress on my dress form, before changing the way it is laced, just to see, how far I would get: My dress form uses all of the ribbon, there is no space to extend the bodice more with the original way of lacing it. She has a bust of 89 cm and a waist of 70. But if you lace it like me through every second eyelit, it fits up to a bust of 95 cm and a waist of 72 cm.

The Coronation Elsa Bodice

The bodice is very pretty, made from a velvety type of suede fabric, embroidered in the front, with detachable straps and more. Here is a closer look at it on my dress form:

The bodice closes with a side zipper. In the centre front there is some boning to keep the bodice from riding up and creating folds. Here it is on my floor:

In the back, there is a shirring panel with a lace up detail. The bias binding around the bottom goes all the way to the back, the bias binding around the neckline however doesn’t. Don’t ask me why…

There are black straps that hold the bodice up, but since there is boning, I don’t think they are necessary unless you have a bigger bust. They are detachable and adjustable in length which I like a lot.

Here is a close up of the embroidery in the front. I like the texture it has a lot.

And here is a shot of the bias binding. It is made from a different type of fabric which adds a nice touch.

The Coronation Elsa Skirt

The skirt is absolutely stunning, I love it. It does not have a very intricate print or waistband, but I do love the simple design very much. It is made from a suede like fabric.

The skirt closes with a hidden zipper in the centre back. On both sides there are shirring panels. I’d say the skirt fits up to a waist of 78 cm.

The skirt does have a border print that represents the embroidery on Elsa’s Coronation dress:

Of course, there are also prints of Elsa. Two different motives to be precise. Here’s the first one:

And the we have Elsa standing on the side:

These prints of Elsa are not repeated around the skirt, both are just printed on the skirt front once.

Joining the Bodice and the Skirt

If you are not as tall as I am, the set gives you the possibility to button the skirt to the bodice. The bodice has transparent buttons on the sides at the top.

The skirt has straps made from the lining fabric with a button hole. Nice detail to notice here: While the skirt and bodice use different fabrics and colours for the fashion layer, they do use the same lining fabric:

The Coronation Cardigan

Now let us have a look at the second piece of today’s blogpost, the Coronation Elsa Cardigan. I looked for this for a long time, it is quite hard to get. The material surprised me, it is very thick. I thought it will be like my other cardigans, a thin knit material, but it is surprisingly warm and thick. Here is the cardigan on my dress form from the front:

My cardigan is a bit bubbled and the button holes in the front are a bit stretched. I don’t mind it, but I wanted to tell you. It was bought second hand, the previous owner has worn it 🙂 So if you wear it, it might bubble as well. You may have to buy one of these bubble razors (I will do so at one point, my coronation Anna Cardigan also has bubbles). From the Side:

The original price of the cardigan was 12000 yen plus taxes 🙂 Here it is from the back:

I also took a picture for you of the cardigan without the cape, the cape is detachable. You can see that with the 89 cm bust of my dress form, the button placket already gapes a bit. The cardigan is very small. I usually close the top button and leave the others open to wear it.

Let’s have a look at the cape, shall we. I have to say, this is really, really narrow. It looks very funny, when I wear it, because it was not made for shoulders wider than my dress form has them (and she doesn’t even have arms oO). The button is actually blue, on the photo it does look a bit purple because of how much editing I had to do to get the colour of the fabric accurate ^^’

Here’s a better look at the jewel (colour not accurate, look at the first picture of the cardigan for reference. I need to learn how to use masks while editing ;)). It is attached to the right side of the cardigan and thus never really in the middle… That bothers me a bit. But I also find it to be very cheap looking and ugly… Maybe I will replace it one day. I need to get over my fear of touching and altering my Secret Honey pieces first 😉

Then the details of the cardigan: The cardigan has super pretty embroidery on both sides of the button placket in the front. You can see that my button holes are a bit stretched by wearing it.

The buttons are custom made with the emblem of Arendelle:

And in the back, we have more beautiful embroidery and a big Arendelle Emblem like on Elsa’s Cape:

And that is already it for today’s post. Thanks a lot for reading, I hope you enjoyed having a look at this Elsa Coronation set and cardigan together with me. Next week, we will have a look at more coronation Elsa pieces, stay tuned.

Love,
Ella