Shimamura Elsa Nightgown – Frozen 2

Hello everyone and welcome to a new post We are going to talk about Shimamura today, a nightgown to be exact. The Frozen 2 nightgowns have recently been rereleased, so I wanted to take the chance and talk about Chiharu’s Elsa Nightgown from Frozen 2 today.

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 Painting Dress.

If you would like to know more about the brand and about how you can get these dresses, I have got you covered in several posts. Here are some resources to start your very own Disney Fashion collection (the methods for Secret Honey apply to Shimamura and other brands too).

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).
Some words on the Shimamura Website: I have written a short paragraph on how I bought from Shimamura directly in this blogpost. You have to be VERY fast though… Everything always sells out almost immediately.

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The Elsa Nightgown

I have actually taken a few photos of this one. normally, I do not like to present myself in nightgowns on the internet, but this one looks enough like clothing to make me feel safe in it ^^’ Here it is from the front:

Something with the lighting was off that day. I shot without artificial light and the sunlight at the time of taking these was coming through the window and probably messd my photos up a bit^^’ The upper part is a better representation of the actual colour of the nightgown.

Here you can see the back of the nightgown. It has prints as well 🙂 I like it, when brands pay attention to both the back and the front of a piece.

The Facts

Recently rereleased (Automn 2026). You should be able to find it on mercari.jp from time to time. Price usually higher than the original price.

Size and Closure

I have both Anna and Elsa in size M. You can find my post on the Anna Nightgown here for reference. I prefer Elsa, to be honest. the bodice is much better for me. The fabric is stretchy etc. so sizing is not that much of a problem. I have owned nightgowns from Shimamura in size L too and the problems that I have with them size wise were not really solved. Here are the measurements.

Measurements

(Amateur-)measured:

Chest: ca. 100 cm (will stretch and seam will not be beneath your bust) -> My bust on these photos is 92 cm.
Waist: loose, lots of space ( ca. 95 cm)
Sleeve length: 57 cm
Nightgown length: 120 cm (measured in the back!)

Fit on me

We have been talking about size issues, so here they are: The sleeves are very short on me. As is the nightgown itself. As I said, sizing up did not solve the problems. Everything is still too short. Also: I have a Rapunzel Nightgown as well. It has tight sleeves. The sleeves are too narrow for someone wearing a bigger size in my opinion. I now wear european size S and those sleeves are too tight on me. I am not sure where they wanted to go with the sizing for these nightgowns to be honest… That is an issue I often have with Shimamura. Hips are a problem for me too, if the cut is narrow around them. Anyway. since I wear these to go to bed, I don’t care about everything being too short.

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The Bodice

The bodice has an empire waistline just like Elsa’s nightgown in the movie. It is gathered in the centre front which is a cute detail and the neckline is decorated with a little ruffle. I do not mind it for a nightgown, I would not wear ruffles like these out though… Too cutsie for my taste.

Here is a closer look at the gathering. I don’t know it this is just the case for my version, but the gathering gets more dense towards the bottom. It is not an issue in the sewing work in my opinion though. Maybe it has to be like this, I just noticed it and wanted to point it out.

Then we have the neckline. As you can see, the neckline is bound with this ribbed binding. To create the v-neck, they just sewed it together. That is not, how I would do it, I, however, do not have to make a profit with a price of 20 USD while paying a license and an influencer at the same time… So. Let us not complain about that ^^’

The ruffle is just one layer. I usually use two layers of fabric, because with ruffles, the back of the fabric is sometimes visible and I do not like that. In this case, it seems to be ok, the back of the fabric does not look that different from the front. The hem is finished very delicately, that is nice 🙂

Dress in Action

The Print

There are two “different” prints on this nightgown. Both of them are repeated. If you look closely, you will notice that all four prints are the same actually. For the print at the bottom, they just took the symbols of the four spirits, placed them above the ice star and cut the star in half.

While the print is a repeat, they did pay special attention to the label like on all their pieces. That is a really cute detail that I do like a lot. Here are some shots of print and labels:

I did try some Elsa poses for photos too, but I just liked one of them. If you want more Elsa poses, watch the video above 😉

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 Shimamura Elsa nightgown together with me. I wish you a good one and hope to see you in my next post

Love,
Ella