Secret Honey Rapunzel Painting Dress

Hello everyone and welcome to a new post Today, I would like to show you this cute little Rapunzel Painting Dress from Secret Honey. I love shirt dresses, so I was drawn to this one. I also find the idea of making a dress centered around Rapunzel’s paintings very cute!

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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 Rapunzel Painting Dress

Something went very wrong with the photo session I had that day… The dress looks great, but my face is blurry. I hope, we can all accept this fact since we are here for the dresses anyway 😉

I like this dress. It is very cute with the collar and everything. I just don’t like it on me ^^’ Well, in theory I do, but it does not feel like a me dress. Too cute. So, it is up for sale, in case it is your style 😀 But let’s have a look at all the details, starting with some full body shots:

The dress is from early 2015 and thus very short. It came in two colour ways. My dress has lilac stripes and there was also a version with sage green stripes. Here is the dress from the side:

And here it is from the back. You can see, that the bodice is actually very roomy. The dress is very comfy apart from the fact, that the cuffs of the sleeves are not elasticated.

The Facts

You can get this dress for a reasonable price usually.

Size and Closure

This dress has no zipper. You just pull it over your bust, meaning, the waist circumference should be able to go over your bust. My bust is 92 cm and I can put it on relatively easily. The back is completely elasticated around the waist and also the top. The cuffs of the sleeves unfortunately aren’t.

Measurements

(Amateur-)measured with shirring extended:

Chest: 95 cm width (but there’s a bit more volume, a little bit bigger bust should fit too)
Waist: 90 cm (high-waisted, at least on me)
Cuffs: 26 cm circumference

Fit on me

I actually really like how this dress looks on me. It is a little bit high-waisted and the skirt is very short on me since I am tall. Also the cuffs are a bit tight. It is not uncomfortable, but I would prefer them to be 1-2 cm bigger just to be comfy. But all in all, I really like the look of this dress on me, if I look past the fact, that this is absolutely not my style 😉

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The Bodice

The bodice has a really cute collar, puffed sleeves and is some sort of shirt dress. The buttons are not functional however, you can’t open it. Only decorative. I like the use of the striped fabric a lot! The fact that they used them in a different direction on the waistband is very striking visually.

Collar and Sleeves

The Peter Pan collar is gathered around the neckline and decorated with white cotton lace around the edges. The puffed sleeves are gathered into a small non elasticated cuff. The striped fabric ist used very cleverly again here:

Here is a close up of what the cotton lace looks like. Very cute, it just tends to twist a bit.

The Buttons

I really love the flower buttons! The flowers are a repeating motive on this dress, the golden flower is used to break up the stripes on the fabric and there are some flower tendrils further down around the hem.

Here is a closer look on one of the little flower buttons. As mentioned above, these buttons are actually not functional. They are sewn onto the placket and the placket is also sewn down, the dress does not open in the front.

Flower Print

The golden healing flower breaks the stripe pattern on the fabric from time to time. I do like this detail, very cute!

Dress in Action

Titel Skirt

The skirt is pleated and also gathered around the waistline. It does have quite some width, but since it is no circle skirt and the fabric has a lot of body, it is not the most perfect dress for twirling in. But I would also not recommend doing that, since the dress is so short 😀 The button placket stops about half-way through so it does not disturb the print around the hem.

The dress does have two layers as all Secret Honey dresses. I wondered what kind of fabric Secret Honey used for the shell, because it looks and feels like cotton. It is a cotton-poly blend actually, 35% cotton and 65% polyester. But the lining is still 100 % polyester so I would not say it is more summer appropriate than other dresses, unfortunately…

Skirt Details/Print

The print around the hem shows different paingints Rapunzel did on the walls of her tower. There is one print of Rapunzel hersolf on the right side of the dress though:

Here is a close up of the flower tendrils:

In total, there are two different big paintings as well as the painting Rapunzel did of herself watching the lanterns. They repeat around the dress. Here are some details:

I do like this picture a lot, so we will end the post with it 🙂

And that is everything I have for you today. I hope you enjoyed this post and loved looking at all of the pretty details of this Rapunzel Painting Dress together with me. I wish you a good one and hope to see you in my next post

Love,
Ella