Shimamura Anna Nightgown – Frozen 2

Hello everyone 🙂 Last time, I showed you the Anna Nightgown as a Secret Honey costume and this time, I thought I would show you Shimamura‘s version of Anna’s Nightgown that they released last year in collaboration with Chiharu (chiharucat on Instagram).

If you wonder how you can buy from Shimamura, I got you covered in my post about another Anna and an Elsa Nightgown. Since their pieces are only available for a limited time usually, you can’t purchase this Anna nightgown from Shimamura directly anymore. But it is occasionally available on mercari.jp. If you wonder how to buy from mercari.jp, I got you covered in my post on how to buy from mercari.jp using Buyee.

This Anna Nightgown is no costume or cosplay like Secret Honey’s version. It is a real piece of room wear you can wear to bed. I do enjoy that quite a bit… Not only wearing Disney Fashion during the day, but also at night? What else could I wish for 😛 I know, I am crazy… But you already know, you are on my blog after all 😉 Let’s dive in!

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The Shimamura Anna Nightgown

I took one picture of me wearing the nightgown for you. Just so you can see how it fits on my body and how the length of the gown and the sleeves are on me (I am 1.74 m tall). This is a size M. I now buy size L just because it is a liiiiittle bit longer (but still shorter on me than on the model on the official photos). So here I am in a nightgown on the internet, yeah! You can see that it is definitely not long enough for me, on Chiharu, it was floor long, but I think she is below 1.60m tall, if I remember correctly from the listings… So naturally it is short on me. The sleeves should be long too. So, if you are tall and like sleeves and skirts to be long enough for you, this is not your brand. But since this is a nightgown, I actually do not mind too much. Also, The sleeves of Anna’s real nightgown are shorter, so perfect.

And here are some photos of the nightgown on my dress form that is one clothing size smaller than I am:

I do like the fabric on my skin, eventhough it is only 15% cotton and 85% polyester. The fabric is soft and quite thick, perfect for cooler nights. I do not sweat a lot wearing it, even when the heating is on. Here is the nightgown from the side:

I prefer the Frozen 2 nightgowns over the child Anna and Elsa nightgowns. The cut looks better on me and my dress form, no weird side seams etc. These two I think have not the same quality as the Frozen 2 ones from 2024, you can read all my critics in this post. The quality of this one is much better. But, I did wear it over last winter and the fabric does pill slightly too. If you want to keep it beautiful, don’t wear it too often. I plan to take some photos for my cosplay account at some point in the future, so I stopped wearing it to keep it nice. I even play with the thought of embroidering the collar and adding the forest green binding and ribbon around the hem to make it more accurate… Here is the nightgown from the back:

Dress Facts

Released in 2024, still occasionally on mercari.jp. The price usually is higher than the original price though.

Size and Closure

This nightgown is as I already mentioned in size M. Sizes XS to XL were available, if I remember correctly. The nightgown is also a bit longer, if you choose the bigger sizes.

Measurements

(Amateur-)measured with shirring extended:

Chest: around 100cm (the fabric is a bit stretchy, but the ribbon is not, so depending were the ribbon sits on your torse, there is more or less room for your bust)

Fit on me

Obviously the nightgown and its sleeves are too short on me. Also the ribbon sits too high on me, it is on my bust instead of underneath. Since I plan to change a few things about this nightgown anyway, I do not mind. I don’t think choosing size L would have made much of a difference for me.

The Bodice

The bodice does have a similar design to Anna’s real nightgown but it also took some liberty. The design is printed on with the exception of the waistband with the bow in velvet that is sewn on. There are two green buttons that you can actually open which is good, because the collar is quite narrow.

Here is a closer look at the collar and the buttons. I like the buttons that Shimamura and Chiharu chose, they are very pretty eventhough they are plastic buttons:

Here is a look at the design. The printed lines represent the ribbons. The pattern on the lighter green is almost movie accurate, but Chiharu and Shimamura added those little flower like patterns. They are also present on my other Anna nightgown.

And a little close up. I took these pictures a while ago and it seems that I was very motivated to take as many pictures as possible 😉

And here is the bow. You can’t undo it since it is sewn together. I like that it was sewn on in the back rather than sewing across the knot. I also like the choice of velvet, velvet always seems very luxurious to me.

The sleeves are little puffed sleeves. they are meant to be full length sleeves, on me they are not though. Which means that the elasticated cuff sits higher on my arm instead of the slimmest point, the wrist. It is a tiny bit tight when I wear it. But I like the sleeves, they are not accurate, but look very cute:

I would like to mention a little detail Shimamura does for these nightgowns, we have it on this one too. I loooooove the labels. So cute. Nice attention to detail in my opinion, here it is:

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The Skirt

The skirt is where all the creative liberty happened 😀 The bodice was more or less accurate to the screen nightgown, but around the hem of this nightgown, Shimamura and Chiharu designed something different. I do like it, it is very cute. Here is a look at the print in its entirety:

Print Details

I have several more photos of this print, eventhough you see everything on the first photo 😛 Let’s just enjoy them, here is a closer look:

The Cute Tag

This nightgown originally cost you 3520 including taxes. Very cheap to me for what it is, but I am used to Swiss prices or the “Swiss penalty”. So my feeling for prices is different than yours, maybe you find it reasonable or expensive. I just leave the information with you.

But look how cute the price is delivered 😉 The tags have a Frozen tag, then we have the tag with the same print as is on the label and the last sheet has a little message in English from Chiharu:

And that is it for today’s post. I hope you enjoyed having a look at this beautiful Shimamura Anna Nightgown and it’s details together with me. Thank you for reading and I hope to see you in my next post.

Love,
Ella