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 :)
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!!
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
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!
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!
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!!
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!
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!!!!
This is amazing! Most Alice in Wonderland related things are just overdone, overused, and cliche now. This is really original and excellently executed!
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!!!!!
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!
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.
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!
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!
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!
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
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.
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!!
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 ^^
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.
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 : )
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!
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.
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
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!
I made the sewing roll ammo holder style thing, but I used black lace cord for a more vintage look and I sewed small pearlescent beads from a craft store onto the string and it looks ok, but the rest of the costume looks like too much work so I just done that and bought a brown leather jacket from New Look and Green jeans that I stamped on. Very good ideas, try them!
Wonderful and I have been dying to find out how to make that Hat!!! I would like to know how to tie the Bowtie Please help a fan out and show us thank you!!!
Amazing! I love how simple the individual steps are, so if I do just a few of them, it shouldn't be too difficult! Since I can't make the whole outfit, I was thinking of being some kind of a "ironic hipster hatter", with mostly black and white costume and a pair of hipstery glasses :-D I also thought about making the hat a bit smaller, and perhaps attaching it to a headband or something. Hmm! Thanks for the inspiration you guys! : D
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.
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.
i really liked this costume thanks for the great ideas! however I would like to know how you made the hat pins and where you got the ostrich feathers....p.s 10/6 isn't the "size card" it's the price
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.
thanks for your video... i won the best individual costume last party... I made my own hat and other accessories... great! thanks again!!!! hope you'll see it looks so nice...
im almost done with this, i used stretchy lycra like fabric for the hat and dyed some lace with rit dye dark green. im gonna use kryolan aquacolor for the makeup. You could also use muslin fabric for the hat and brim and just dye it or spray with fabric spray.
This has been very helpful. I used this last year to make a top hat, and now, I'm in the process of making a mad hatter one. I couldn't do it without you. I do have one question though. What kind of wire did you use?
so when you sew the brim, do you first do it in the kind of flat form of the wire, sew it and then give it its bent form or do you form the wire so that it has the bent form first and then sew the brim on?
Wow seeing this was a blast from the past.
You should start a series called "Corrine vs. costume"
I can't even express how amazing this tutorial is. They made a seemingly difficult costume look manageable. I heart you Threadbanger
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 :)
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!!
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
This actually looks good...like really good
Goodness! You two are so creative! I'd have never thought to do half those things the way you did! That hat! Absolute genius!!!!
that was freaking awesome!
I won Best Costume at my work party last night with the custome I made based on our tutorial! Thanks Threadbanger....you rock!
who else is watching this 7 years later?
Iralynn Wright me 😭😂😂
me
me and that means that mad hatter will always be popoular=)
Beebo_ Lover me
Beebo_ Lover MMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
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!
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!
Esse segue sendo até hoje o melhor tutorial
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!!!
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!!
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!
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!!!!
This is amazing! Most Alice in Wonderland related things are just overdone, overused, and cliche now. This is really original and excellently executed!
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!!!!!
Who is watching this 9 years later? (2018)
I just did 😊
Me
11 years later...
I'm watching in 2020 xD
2020 for me 👁👄👁
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!
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?
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.
William Smith Thank you very much!
Your welcome. If you need anymore help just ask. It's a great project.
Omg thx, You just helped me two lol
Thx
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!
Made a flamingo version of this hat. It turned out great! Thanks Threadbanger!
Threadbanger creativity and humor at its finest! This may be the best one y'all ever did!
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!
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!
Right now I'm bingeing all the old videos
man, corinne made a REALLY awesome and convincing looking mad hatter tho
Love thus tutorial. Made my own last Halloween and took a few liberties with it and won two first prizes in costume contest
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
that hat is BALLER! this costume is kickass, bravo bravo
Prop tip:
For the chain yarn thingy, use paper clips. It looks really cool lol
it's 2019 and i'm watching a Threadbanger video bc I actually wanna make a hat :D
that is seriously the most awsome costume i have ever seen made. You must be really really crazy good talented. it look awsome.....
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.
I'm gonna use this for a costume party and Halloween. It's gonna be freaking awesome!
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!!
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 ^^
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.
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 : )
My favorite film ever! I love mad hatter too :)
This is the most fabulous tutorial yet!
I'm so glad Rob and Corrine are back together. I really missed the old threadbanger.
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.
this is an amazing idea, and thanks for the hard work putting it together, so informative, and clever!!
This is a pretty good cosplay.
You cannot imagine how much this helps.
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!
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.
i love this and macbarbie07's tutorial. i'm definitely going to be taking things from both looks to make my costume!
I especially liked the hat tutorial. Very clever!
Fantastic! I'm going to make my top hats this way for now on :)
WOW! This is an AMAZING tutorial! Im very impressed! GOOD work guys.
The intro kicked so much butt. Insta-props for cracking an Alice Cooper joke. :D
BEST TUTORIAL IN THE HISTORY OF VIDEOS!
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
Wow! This is awesome. I'm going to try it now. I'm going to be the Mad Hatter this Halloween.
god dang, talk about creativity!!!
and i love the ending :D
Wow this is so intricate and creative. Love it!!! I always love halloween on threadbanger. You guys are great!
I love the tutorial. Great job. Made one in about 2 hours and good job on the video.
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!
I made the sewing roll ammo holder style thing, but I used black lace cord for a more vintage look and I sewed small pearlescent beads from a craft store onto the string and it looks ok, but the rest of the costume looks like too much work so I just done that and bought a brown leather jacket from New Look and Green jeans that I stamped on. Very good ideas, try them!
Wonderful and I have been dying to find out how to make that Hat!!! I would like to know how to tie the Bowtie Please help a fan out and show us thank you!!!
Wonderful! Threadbanger is my favorite subscription!
the pants are amazing!
great job threadbanger
Amazing! I love how simple the individual steps are, so if I do just a few of them, it shouldn't be too difficult! Since I can't make the whole outfit, I was thinking of being some kind of a "ironic hipster hatter", with mostly black and white costume and a pair of hipstery glasses :-D
I also thought about making the hat a bit smaller, and perhaps attaching it to a headband or something. Hmm! Thanks for the inspiration you guys! : D
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!
This was one of the first youtube videos I watched
When will you guys do an Alice costume tutorial? I really wanna go as alice this year!
great tutorial for the hat. I might make a shorter version to go with the costume I already have in mind. Thanks guys :)
Watching in 2018 while freaking out about my costume this year. After watching this, I think I’ll be okay. Thanks for the ideas.
Wow this costume is freaking awesome!!!
so awesome! i loved the friendly narration too.
WOW!
I have a question, for the hat instead of using spray paint, could i use black oil paint?
omg! I Love the Mad hatter.
It looks so easy to make, but also amazing!
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.
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.
i really liked this costume thanks for the great ideas! however I would like to know how you made the hat pins and where you got the ostrich feathers....p.s 10/6 isn't the "size card" it's the price
@DondeBano It IS Eric! ThreadBanger and IndyMogul used to team up for stuff all the time because their headquarters were in the same office.
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.
the hat looks so realistic i love it
I was expecting rob to burn his hand
Lol
Great costume! but about how much will the materials cost to make this costume?
thanks for your video... i won the best individual costume last party... I made my own hat and other accessories... great! thanks again!!!! hope you'll see it looks so nice...
best costume tutorial ive ever seen! great job :D
im almost done with this, i used stretchy lycra like fabric for the hat and dyed some lace with rit dye dark green. im gonna use kryolan aquacolor for the makeup. You could also use muslin fabric for the hat and brim and just dye it or spray with fabric spray.
OMG!! i love that top hat!! absolutely goregeous
THANK YOU GUYS!
I'm going to a Mad Hatter themed party and so, so want a hat just like that :D now I know how to make one!
sweet! my sister wanted me to make her a mad hatter costume! great ideas! thanks mucho!
This is frikking awesomee!! Thanks soo much ♥
Sorry to be annoying but how did you make the 10/6 card thing? :) Thanks soo much!
This has been very helpful. I used this last year to make a top hat, and now, I'm in the process of making a mad hatter one. I couldn't do it without you. I do have one question though. What kind of wire did you use?
so when you sew the brim, do you first do it in the kind of flat form of the wire, sew it and then give it its bent form or do you form the wire so that it has the bent form first and then sew the brim on?
Brilliant tutorial, I love your funny sketches!
Thanks for sharing!
Too funny! Great ways of making the costume. Thanks a heap! ^^*
I LOVE the HAT!!!!!
i have to try that on my own!!!
i am making this costume and it looks awesome. i cant wait to wear it to school for the party!!!!!!!!!!!
me and my friends are going to the movies in costume. ill post the pic's. Great tutorial, helped me out alot!!!
Awesome mad hatter costume!
Best hatter costume on youtube!