Burton's Mad Hatter Hat

Step 10 Complete costume

For the rest of the costume I got everything from a thrift store, brown coat, colorful vest, salmon shirt, black with bright accents scarf/bow, striped pants and extra scarfs to pin to the coat. I used about 24 thread spools that are held together with yarn to make the "bullet belt" on the chest and the wig is a regular orange clown afro wig that I straightened with a  regular hair straightener, and that is it.
Good Luck and remember Why is a raven like a writers desk?




Because Poe wrote on both

Comments

[jorange1]

Fantastic instructable! I'm looking forward to making this hat for my Mad Tea Partty in a couple of weeks.
Great solution to the riddle (big fan of Poe), however, I have to say that Lewis Carroll said, in 1896, that the solution to the riddle is "because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front"
He also reminds us that it was an after thought and the riddle was not supposed to have a solution.

[amandagraves]

I made this hat in about 3 hours in total - not allowing for the drying time of the curved visor from your instructions. Very well thought out - It Won FIRST PRIZE at my son's Schools Mad Hatters Tea Party today, everyone thought it was Awesome - THANKS - sorry we can't share the wine with you that we won!

[Badia]

Cheers, and enjoy the wine, glad I could be of service

[arkitek65]

cant wait to finish this project for our church's Hatty Christmas Party!

Thanks for the step-by-step Badia!

[audrey64]

iv made the hat today,it looks great..thanks for the instruction id been trying to figure it out for a week

[audrey64]

piictur of my mad hatter costume all made from scratch with the help of this site..thank you

[Badia]

It looks amazing, cheers

[audrey64]

thanks to this site its fab,iv also made a willy wonka costume using the same hat principle

[madhatterfan]

How much did you pay for all of the materials?

[audrey64]

i used a cardboard box,old fabric old net curtain and can black spray paint mine nust have cost £2 or about 3 dollars..my coat was an old curtain,the trousers from charity shop the wig a clown wig which i ironed under a towel,the cottons were from the pound shop,

[Badia]

about 6 dollars for the hat, thats the fabric and glue, and about 8 dollars for the costume, I got all of it from a thrift store

[CassieSue]

I am just about to go try this! I'll upload a photo when it's done!

YOU ROCK!! 

[Badia]

No, YOU ROCK!!!! hahah cheers, glad I could help

[cheekysewandsew]

I'm going to give the hat a go. Fantastic costume by the way.

[Badia]

Thanks hope you get it ready for today, this movie is going to be epic

[alice kiddo]

It rocks!

very clear steps

[carrotman42]

It's writing desk. Other than that a wonderful instructable. Keep writting.