Secret Honey Harvest Anna Cosplay

Hello everyone and welcome to a new post Today I would like to show you my second favourite Anna dress, Anna’s Harvest Anna Cosplay from Secret Honey. The embroidery on this dress is divine! I absolutely love it. Also the choices of fabric, spot on!

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The Harvest Anna Cosplay

These pictures are not all from the same shooting. Some are from 2022 and some are from 2025. I had more or less the same measurements in these two years. Now I am a bit slimmer and the shoulders fit much better 🙂 Just keep that in mind. I will give you the maximum shoulder width further down, it is a bit tight on me in the photos here when I am not wearing the jacket you can see it.

Here is the whole set with dress and jacket from the front:

I am not wearing a petticoat or hoop skirt beneath the dress, just for your info. I think it does look pretty without, but I may look into it in the future because Anna’s skirt in the movie seems to be more voluminous than this. Here ist it is from the side:

And from the back. The dress has two ties in the back as well as a few pleats (like in the front). I want to redo the pleats, they are not 100 % symmetrical with the embroidery on my dress as it is, maybe I can reshape them 🙂

The Facts

This dress is very popular for obvious reasons, it is absolutely gorgeous. As far as I know, there are remakes of this dress floating around though. The one I am showing you here is untagged, meaning that it is a real dress from Secret Honey with a flaw somewhere.

Size and Closure

The dress is one of the ones that allows a bigger bust (in comparison with other SH dresses, not generally spoken) actually. The jacket has no shirring or anything, it has to fit you. I think the shoulder width is the measurement that should work for you there.

The dress closes with a hidden zipper in the back that is placed on the side of the shirring panel. I think, they should have chosen a normal zipper here. I can’t get this dress on myself because there is so much fabric in the waistband that I can’t pull the zipper over it myself, eventhough I am like 6cm beneath the maximum width of the waistband.

Usually I only lace the dress to the end of the lacing panels because I do not like the cream coloured cord over the lilac waistband. But it is supposed to lace over it, so I am showing you here how it looks:

Measurements Dress

(Amateur-)measured with shirring extended:

Chest: 95cm, maybe a bit more
Waist: 74cm
Shoulder Width (left to right): 53cm, there is room, but it might look funny above the bust

Measurement Jacket

(Amateur-)measured:

Shoulder Width (left to right): 43cm

Fit on me

I do now like the fit on me. In the photos I share with you in this post, I think my shoulders are still a bit too wide for both dress and jacket. Other than that I am very happy with it. The waist sits on my natural waist. And the dress does not slip down my body, I do not need additional transparent straps to hold it up, which is nice because the loops for these are in a cracy place, they do not work for me, more on that later.

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The Harvest Anna Dress

Upfront, I do not like this photo, I will have to update it one day, probably next automn 🙂 As you can see, the shoulders seem a bit too tight. I think, I could just have laced it differently in the back, but it also shows in the front, that there is a bit too much circumference.

Here is the dress from the side. What you can see nicely on this photo are the pleats in the skirt:

And again from the back. Here you can see that I only laced it down to the waistband but not over the waistband. I think it looks nicer that way:

The Bodice

My arms are behind my back on this picture causing the two indents above the bust. Not an ideal pose, but it is, what it is. The bodice is absolutely gorgeous: I love the scalloped neckline. It is beautifully finished with a facing on the inside and decorated with embroidery on the outside. The bodice itself is completely embroidered in the front and also in the back where there is no shirring. The waistband is also embroidered and made from a beautiful lilac satin fabric.

One thing I want to say about the dress: You can not lift your arms… I have a really hard time putting on the jacket myself, when I wear the dress… It is a real princess dress, you can’t get in or out by yourself 😛

Let’s go from top to bottom and then sleeves. Here is a close up of the beautiful neckline of this dress. It goes all the way around until the shirring panel starts.

There are little loops for invisible straps, but they are too far to the side for me, I don’t think they do much there… It was probably difficult to place them somewhere else because of how the dress is cut. But, they are not necessary, luckily.

Beneath the neckline is this beautiful embroidery pattern made from circles in two different lilac tones, triangles in lilac in different sizes as well as wheat in a warm light brown tone:

The waistband is embroidered as well in the same light brown thread that is used for the wheat motives on the dress.

The sleeves are done in two parts. The upper part is made from the silk like fabric. The lower part is a fabric in the same colour that is densly pleated. This is very nice because it allows the sleeves to extend if you need a bit more space for the arms.

The sleeves are also embroidered above the cuffs and around the cuffs to finish the raw edges of the fabric:

The Skirt

The skirt has a high-low hem that is very beautiful. Since the back of the dress is visible from the front, Secret Honey flatlined the skirt in an orange silk like fabric. Here are the two layers of the skirt, the fashion layer (embroidered outer and orange flat lining) and a lining layer where the ruffles are attached too that peak out beneath the top layer in the front:

But let’s get to the most interesting part of the skirt, the embroidery! Look at this: This is the upper part of the skirt beneath the waistband. It repeats the pattern on the bodice, but also adds new elements to it. This pattern is repeated all around the skirt but it does get longer and the elements get bigger towards the centre back of the skirt:

Here are a few detail shots of the individual elements that make up the embroidery pattern on the skirt. I also added a picture of the embroidery on the ties that also repeats the pattern on the sleeves and waistband.

Harvest Anna in Action

The Harvest Anna Jacket

I love this jacket. Mainly for the choice of fabric. I remember: When I was in cinema watching Frozen 2, I noticed how unbelievably good the animation was because of the different textures in fabrics, especially on Anna’s Harvest Festival dress. The silk texture of the dress and the linen texture of the jacket. And Secret Honey perfectly chose the fabrics for this costume.

Here is the jacket on my floor. As you can see, there is no shirring etc. the jacket has to fit you as it is. For me, it is a bit short maybe? It hits right above the waistband of the dress.

The first thing I would like to point out is the neckline. The cut is very interesting, it is decorated with a nice white trim and, of course, embroidery. We do have wheat motives again, the motives on waistband and ties of the dress, the dots…

Trim and embroidery go all the way down and in case of the trim around the whole hem of the jacket.

Here is a close up of the embroidery going down the opening of the dress:

The star of the show for me is the back of the jacket. Such beautiful embroidery! Again, repeating some motives but also introducing new ones:

Here is a little close up of the embroidery in the back. The two different shades of lilac thread are easier to see on this shot.

Of course, there are also details on the sleeves! You can certainly guess, what I am showing you more of now: Yes, more embroidery!

The cuffs are also very nicely done. They are sewn out of the silk like cream coloured fabric used for the dress. The buttons are covered with the same fabric that was used for the waistband and ties:

The Harvest Anna Necklace

Together with the set also came a little necklace. Here it is on my floor. There are yellow rhinestones as well as rhinestones in two orange tones and one red one in the middle.

The chain is very dainty and done in a nice warm gold tone. Here is a close up on the pendant with the rhinestones.

Some Things I Noticed

I leave this at the bottom. I noticed a few things about the finishing of the dress.

understitched flat lining, we love it
bias binding to finish the seams on the inside (at least towards the bottom and in the front, but unfortunately not in the back)
the ruffle stops at the side seam of the lining

These my not be interesting to you, but they certainly are for me, I like to sew myself and look at stuff like this 😉

And that is almost it. I have one last photo from automn 2025 for you on which I actually tried to do a pose that would suit Anna 😀 Do you think I succeeded?

And that is everything I have for you today. I hope you enjoyed having a look at all of the pretty details of this Harvest Anna Cosplay from Secret Honey together with me. I wish you a good one and hope to see you in my next post

Love,
Ella