Mad Hatter Costume, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Threadbanger

Complete Mad Hatter costume tutorial inspired by Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

[@automatontonic]

Wow seeing this was a blast from the past.

[@anandabluhm]

You should start a series called "Corrine vs. costume"

[@shan4364]

This actually looks good...like really good

[@stratosinger]

I've been working 3 days for this costume, and it's NO WAY intermediate. But in the end I've had my result, a great result! Simply my best costume ever. And I gotta thank Threadbanger and this tutorial ;). Soon I'll post here the pictures!!

[@nepatsfan0011]

Just wanted to say thanks for the fabulous step by step video!! I used it to make my son's Mad Hatter comments and I pretty much went step by step - I literally watched this hundreds of times I think by the time I was done, lol. He got so many comments and "wows" - it was such a thrill for him to be so fawned over on Halloween!!! Thank you again - what a great help to those of us who really need to be hand held through costume making :)

[@rubybarber7392]

Who is watching this 9 years later? (2018)

[@teamdaddy5217]

I just did 😊

[@juliacortez5516]

Me

[@emilhund]

11 years later...

[@aperson6415]

I'm watching in 2020 xD

[@Idk-bx2tq]

2020 for me 👁👄👁

[@MsFrankenStitch]

that was freaking awesome!

[@elementwind91]

I really love how everything ended up! And the spray-painted pants gave me inspiration for another costume I'm working on! Thanks for the double inspiration! :D

[@lindamartini]

I can't even express how amazing this tutorial is. They made a seemingly difficult costume look manageable. I heart you Threadbanger

[@dobbysbitch]

My favorite costume video so far

[@Kayato152]

it's 2019 and i'm watching a Threadbanger video bc I actually wanna make a hat :D

[@irawright1121]

who else is watching this 7 years later?

[@julissarosales4759]

Iralynn Wright me 😭😂😂

[@sebrinacabrera8170]

me

[@angelnakashima551]

me and that means that mad hatter will always be popoular=)

[@bronwencorcoran7114]

Beebo_ Lover me

[@arnica-MISSING-]

Beebo_ Lover MMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

[@FunkyMunky1380]

So I made the costume and it looks great, thanks for the video! The hat especially is amazing looking! I got all the stuff I need from JoAnne Fabrics. I died the jacket and pants a dark red wine color, and used copper fabric spray for the pants, then used deep purple and hunter green for the jacket. I also got some purple shimmer fabric paint and lightly brushed it all over the jacket for a little glitter effect, very subtle tho. Use Kandee Johnson's makeup tutorial. This won me 1st prize!

[@brandynettleton1658]

Goodness! You two are so creative! I'd have never thought to do half those things the way you did! That hat! Absolute genius!!!!

[@GustavoOliveira-yi7ov]

Esse segue sendo até hoje o melhor tutorial

[@noradonnelly1330]

Right now I'm bingeing all the old videos

[@ChocolateFrizz89]

Thank you SO much for this!! You have brought me out of my depression about my costume... I experienced a major fail in the making of my costume and was about to spend a lot of money to fabricate my own hat... this will save so much time and money! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!!!

[@kaeyartz]

man, corinne made a REALLY awesome and convincing looking mad hatter tho

[@Sillydanceboi]

I won Best Costume at my work party last night with the custome I made based on our tutorial! Thanks Threadbanger....you rock!

[@MickeyMayhem1982]

Love thus tutorial. Made my own last Halloween and took a few liberties with it and won two first prizes in costume contest

[@MzHolliWudKitti]

HA! WHEN I SAW ur ad on the cool2craft video i remebered you from THIS VIDEO!!! it was super helpful when i made the Mad Hatter for my daughter!!! glad to find y0u again! love your repurposing of old clothes!

[@strangerdanger4837]

Prop tip: For the chain yarn thingy, use paper clips. It looks really cool lol

[@archystrange13]

Fantastic! I'm going to make my top hats this way for now on :)

[@tentaclepuff]

This is amazing! Most Alice in Wonderland related things are just overdone, overused, and cliche now. This is really original and excellently executed!

[@Faithfightsfoes]

that was really amazing. you know what I'd like to see? how to make a ringmaster costume (: I've been dying to go as a ringmaster for two years, and all the costumes I find are really expensive. again, amazing.

[@Annemnichols]

Thanks so much for this tutorial! I'm right in the middle of making this costume for my husband's Halloween work party. Their work colors are green and black, so I'm primarily using only those colors for the costume. The hat turned out AMAZING and I'm just waiting for the dyed blazer and pants to dry so I can finish. Love you guys!!

[@CandeeCarrnage]

Also for those of you looking for wire for the brim, if you go to a craft store with a floral section they sell rolls of thick wire (5yds for 2.99 at Joannes) They are usually hanging right below the thin floral wire they sell in sticks. They are thick and easy to bend, I tried a wire hanger for my first go around! lol It helped me MAJORLY to make a trial and error hat first with cheap materials you have laying around!

[@Coopersmith7718]

Great DIY project. Made the whole costume and got 1st place. I did use a 1 inch wooden dowel for the thread bandolier. Carved out each thread area on the table saw then cut them apart and painted them. Turned out great, thank you!

[@pjomaria909]

I'm making a costume for my school, can you please tell me the steps on how you made the style thread bandolier with the wooden dowels, please?

[@Coopersmith7718]

I took a 1 inch wood dowel. Marked off the top and bottom of each spool, then marked off each spool were the thread would be. I used a table saw with a dado blade to cut out each thread area 3/8" in. You could do it with a regular blade but would just take longer, or you could use a router table. When using the table saw I held the dowel over the spinning blade and slowly rotated the dowel and move to the side after each turn. Then cut each spool apart , drilled a hole like a spool of thread has. Then painted the top and bottom white and the thread area with different colors. Putting them together would be the same.

[@pjomaria909]

William Smith Thank you very much!

[@Coopersmith7718]

Your welcome. If you need anymore help just ask. It's a great project.

[@amitysearle1643]

Omg thx, You just helped me two lol Thx

[@CandeeCarrnage]

Had a really hard time covering the hat with fabric (bumps) they suggest cutting the fabric on a bias or treating it like how you would cover a lampshade. I honestly got head explody over it and just went with my own way. I would glue on the top and bottoms simultaneously one after the other and pull tight. I ended up doing it half and half, so I have two seams in the hat one each side instead of one but its going to be covered by feathers and such anyhow, and it looks really nice! I am pleased!

[@Vade1313]

this is so freakin sweet!!! Im a guy and had know idea about how to start on this mad hatter costume and you totally nailed it. Even a novice like me should be able to pull this off. THANKS 4 the vid!!!!

[@narutoflash10nhjigy7]

I'm gonna use this for a costume party and Halloween. It's gonna be freaking awesome!

[@hypnotoad96]

Made a flamingo version of this hat. It turned out great! Thanks Threadbanger!

[@princess7strawberry]

Alice is one of my favorite stories, and I'm usually pleased with the different adaptions. I can't say that I'm excited for this one, but this tutorial convinced me to consider going. I told my friend about how to make this costume- I promised to make him one. I'll let you know (if & when) how my version turns out. Thanks, Threadbanger!

[@greenadore]

that hat is BALLER! this costume is kickass, bravo bravo

[@MillennialMcGuyver]

That's INFINITELY better than the methods used to make the original hats in those days...they were "mad" hatters for a reason! Love this! Kudos!!!

[@MuscadineDreams]

I'm so glad Rob and Corrine are back together. I really missed the old threadbanger.

[@kdhoward83]

You can cut the fabric a certain way so it will come out to a 3D cone, but if you use a rectangle cut then it'll bunch and you'd have to cut about 6 inch strips and stretch and glue those individually.

[@Juultjuuhx]

My favorite film ever! I love mad hatter too :)

[@hrhqueene]

Threadbanger creativity and humor at its finest! This may be the best one y'all ever did!

[@LLSmoothAsh]

This video was awesome, i tried to follow it step by step with only a few changes mainly due to a lack of good source materials in my local shops. the end result was cool though and Halloween this year was a good one. ThreadBanger you are bad ass!! Love Love

[@tspeecestudios]

The intro kicked so much butt. Insta-props for cracking an Alice Cooper joke. :D

[@TheArcAngelNetwork]

great Vid! I pretty much did the exact same thing as you guys, but instead of making the brim I just slipped it over a cheapie felt top hat, covered the brim with the same fabric as the underlayer of the hat and sprayed it dark green, with patches of metallic gold and purple. anywho, awesome job Threadbanger, keep up the good work!

[@Jayjee762]

This was one of the first youtube videos I watched

[@GFWMOMOF2]

this is an amazing idea, and thanks for the hard work putting it together, so informative, and clever!!

[@automatontonic]

I'm going to a convention as the Undertaker/Mad Hatter costume from Black Butler. This tutorial did help. Oh, and Alice Cooper is awesome.

[@JGallant1983J]

that is seriously the most awsome costume i have ever seen made. You must be really really crazy good talented. it look awsome.....

[@tusense]

I especially liked the hat tutorial. Very clever!

[@laiko1176]

Omg that reminds me of October 2016 when I watched this video and tried to do an tophat for my Alice in wonderland presentation 😂😍😭😭 FLASHBACKS ARE COMIN' BACK OMG IM GETTING TEARS

[@TearsBehindSmiles]

Most people who watch Threadbanger are people who already have most of the materials in this video laying around the house. I, for one, already own a sewing machine, spools of thread, and a ton of scrap fabric. Most everything else is really cheap and can come from a thrift store or dollar store. If I wanted to make this costume, it MIGHT cost me $25 or $30 and it would look FAR nicer and hold but FAR better than a cheaply made halloween costume.

[@emlil7773]

omg i watched this video two years ago before i really started watching threadbanger

[@troopcry1235]

I was expecting rob to burn his hand

[@juliacortez5516]

Lol

[@kenzieravenclaw7460]

Alice in wonderland: ALL TIME FAVOURITE MOVIE EVER! Disney tho. But Tim Burton's movie is my SECOND ALL TIME FAVOURITE MOVIE! ITS JUST THE BEST EVER

[@miffsters]

The hat is AWESOME!! I'm thinking of a Mad Hatter cosplay and this tutorial is really helpful for the hat ;) It looks a bit tricky, but I'll try my best!!

[@InvaderApocolyptic]

im planning on making my mad hatter costume like 7 months before halloween so i have enough time to make it properly without screwing up and this video just helped me so much thank you for uploading this vid ^^

[@iheartkole]

This is the most fabulous tutorial yet!

[@juliacortez5516]

This is a pretty good cosplay.

[@paigeypaigey777]

god dang, talk about creativity!!! and i love the ending :D

[@CookiemonsterLove001]

You cannot imagine how much this helps.

[@dznfreak]

If you look closely, it appears the fabric is cut on the bias which would give the fabric the ability to stretch enough to glue to the top while retaining it's ability to ease rather than tuck at the base. Try cutting your fabric on the bias and see if it helps with less puckering.

[@Sharei32]

Just finished making my own hat. It still needs to be spraypainted and the scarf and some hatpins, but it definitely looks like a hat now. I'm very proud of myself and you fuys were so much help : )

[@tbhstells1821]

darn i feel so old

[@lehcki]

yeah me too :)

[@brendavela9921]

yep

[@rainydaysartduo9535]

Me four and I'm only 11...... And a kid walked up to me at school a while back and asked "what's Alice in wonderland..?"

[@bellthandian]

As for the brim of the hat, instead of buying wire, I actually took an old lamp shade and took the wire hoop out of it, then cut it where it was held together and shortened it, and it worked perfect, it has the right thickness the hat needed.

[@kenzieravenclaw7460]

The movie wasn't even out yet! Are those clips from the trailer? I didn't watch it before I went to see the movie! I was just waaaaaaaaaaay to excited to see my favourite actor and director together again and remaking my all time favourite movie!

[@robefattecacao]

Great tutorial. We use it for mad hatter costume in "Jack in Wonderlan", parody of Alice in Wonderland first trailer, with Jack Sparrow.

[@AngelicOblivion90]

Wow! This is awesome. I'm going to try it now. I'm going to be the Mad Hatter this Halloween.

[@mle011]

Wonderful! Threadbanger is my favorite subscription!

[@theaudiobookaficionado]

Wow this is so intricate and creative. Love it!!! I always love halloween on threadbanger. You guys are great!

[@haydenwest7978]

For the fingerless gloves, you can get a glove and just stretch out where the fingers start from the rest and cut the fingers off right bellow the base so you don't see the fingers starting. And then just fray the edges with a razor blade.

[@practicalmagic9]

that rocked!my son wants to be sweeny todd this year (and daughter is thinking about being mrs lovett),and this gave me some great ideas on how to create them also!

[@soulfulandsweet]

the pants are amazing! great job threadbanger

[@irenegoesrawr]

i love this and macbarbie07's tutorial. i'm definitely going to be taking things from both looks to make my costume!

[@moviefanfan8]

Awesome mad hatter costume!

[@pinkxiheart]

the hat looks so realistic i love it

[@jjaymia]

Watching in 2018 while freaking out about my costume this year. After watching this, I think I’ll be okay. Thanks for the ideas.

[@Vuzzzi]

"unless" which is tragically not the case for most of the bourgeoisie. Owned.

[@ruby_dance2582]

BEST TUTORIAL IN THE HISTORY OF VIDEOS!

[@yadikay]

It came out great. "the second try" i first used stiff fabric like she said in the tutorial and it looked like a lamp, but the hat came up better when i used a old t-shirt.

[@sadiesmommi]

Too freaking awsome. I may have to make this one for my husband. LOL He loves to scare the kids in the neighborhood. I think this one would freak them out. :)

[@karalouise5]

Wow this costume is freaking awesome!!!

[@scrapchick35]

I love the tutorial. Great job. Made one in about 2 hours and good job on the video.

[@juliakercsmar6587]

this is fucking brilliant! but it really bothers me that there was a commercial break.

[@kaelikat4179]

it was there sposer I think

[@Myuu_chi]

Well you can skip it...

[@cade_olson]

so awesome! i loved the friendly narration too.

[@SalemSingsStuff]

I'm making one of these hats to wear to the Alice in Wonderland movie showing in Woodstock! Thanks!

[@thisgoldhouse]

@ 1:43 "stretch and glue" The hot glue dries really fast. Just use your hands. If you have thin material, you might want to wear a glove, because that shit is hot!

[@CupcakeCherrie]

For people struggling with the wire hat brim: unbend a wire coat hanger (don't lie we all have these) and then re end into the brim shape. If you do not have wire coat hangers buy a 5 pack for £1 at Ikea. Or just use gardening wire (very durable, very strong) and if you don't have gardening wire buy it from B&Q.

[@Gavin53zane]

How did you got the image of the costume when the movie didn't came out yet?

[@sarahrain4371]

throwback to the first video that made me fall in love with threadbanger

[@Rovertimes]

lol wtf Alice Cooper shows up hahaha had me dead

[@AlbinoMonkeyC]

The Hatters coat starts off more as a green-blue-brownish color, but by the end of the movie changes to turquoise/bright, neon blue. His lace cuffs start out as turquoise/bright, neon blue and change to white.

[@PatriciaPageMosaicArtsCrafts]

Brilliant tutorial, I love your funny sketches! Thanks for sharing!

[@Sillydanceboi]

I did this costume with a few changes. I can's sew... i thought this would have been impossible to make... but my best friend the hot glue gun came to my recue. Instead of sewing around the brim I hot glued it and it came out great. I also hot glued the lace to the inside of the cuffs and hot glued the fingerless gloves. It may not last for ever but will do for one night. I also didn't have gold paint so I used copper and it looks great. I also used watered down acrylic paint instead of dye.

[@Janette0220]

OMG!! i love that top hat!! absolutely goregeous

[@keyne92]

I LOVE the HAT!!!!! i have to try that on my own!!!

[@pandoradoom]

WOW! This is an AMAZING tutorial! Im very impressed! GOOD work guys.

[@Evilhag_x]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the old thread banger, and rob actually succeeding

[@dakoata121212]

Best hatter costume on youtube!

[@RennArmy]

Probably gonna be pretty popular this year, with the new movie and all

[@KaitytheChameleon]

That's an amazing looking costume!

[@lodemaiofslovakia]

Love you thread banger!! I almost had to not make my buddy an awesome top hat for my wedding...it was almost going to be normal! Thank you!

[@CoreyTaylorsBitch]

the hat is AWESOME!!!