I read the reviews about this hat and was convinced it was the right hat for my daughters mad hatter costume.  She is 13 and it said that it was easily adjustable.  It also said on several reviews that there is a small zipper pocket inside so that you can fill it with packing peanuts or tissue paper to bulk it up and retain the shape, so, I was sold.  The hat came and, it was emerald green and looked like a leprachaun hat.  I was somewhat disappointed.  There was no zipper pocket on the inside to puff up the hat and the hat was flat.  Hallween is quickly approaching so, I decided to try to make it work, and although i'm crafty, this was alot of work.

To make this a great mad hatter hat, it is possible.  I cut a two inch slit on the inside liner of the hat and filled it with puffed up tissue paper to get the shape we needed and then I sewed the slit closed again.  I removed the odd (yellow) felt "belt" around the base and the white felt "card" on the front.  Both are barely glued on and came off very easily.  I bought some black lace material, cut it into odd sized pieces, sprayed the hat with spray adhesive and started to place the layers of lace around the hat.  The spray adhesive also added a stiffness to the hat that I was looking for.  Then I used some metalic paint markers to mark the hat up and "age" it, wraped some pinkish fabric around the base and secured in the back, made a new 10/6 card and stuck it so it was coming out of the pink fabric and then I took four wooden chopsticks, spray painted them and added some beads and things to make them look like hat pins and stuck those on the other side also coming out of the pink cloth.  To top it off, I added a peacock feather towards the back and the hat is aaaamazing!  If you are planning to order this for a mad hatter costume, please be prepared that it is an awful shade of green and there is ALOT of work that needs to be done to get it to look authentic....I will say that it did ship fast and was easy to work with once I had the proper tools to transform it.