Many kids and adults find it a good idea to wear costumes that relate to fairy tale characters for Halloween. You can get costume ideas from books and websites. One such costume for Halloween would be the kids Mad Hatter costume.
The Hatter is a character from the much beloved storybook Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Although the author never referred to this character as Mad Hatter, another character, the Cheshire Cat calls the Hatter mad, and thereby the epithet. This book has captured the imagination of people across all ages, all over the world.
The kids Mad Hatter costume is a popular one among children. The special feature of this costume is the large sized top hat that kids like to wear. A couple of decades back, kids mostly used their father’s or grandfathers’ top hats for completing their costumes. In recent times, the use of top hats by adults has almost come to down to being negligible.
If you want to make these simple costume ideas yourself, all you will need is the storybook for the design, sewing accessories, a sewing machine and fabric for the costume and of course, good sewing skills.
You can also visit a MadHatter costume site that has a tutorial giving you instructions to put together a kids Mad Hatter costume. You can combine a normal sized trouser, shirt, jacket, a cloak and anything else that your kid will like to wear along with the top hat which must be larger than the normal size. You can use a belt or Velcro strap to keep the hat in place on the kid’s head. However, if you think you do not have the time and patience to do this, you can check out the local costume store for options such as buying or hiring a costume.
If you want a kids Mad Hatter costume, you may have to buy a top hat to complement the suit worn by the kid or you may purchase a complete costume set from any costume shop. Prices range from the minimum to extravagant depending upon the style and availability of the costume. If purchasing a costume for a day does not seem feasible to you, you can even hire the costume for Halloween and return it to the costume hire shop. The charges are minimal and you also don’t have to bother about the costume lying useless in your attic for the rest of the year.
In a typical Mad Hatter costume site, you will also find different options for designs of the kids Mad Hatter costume including top hats with feathers, embellishments, colours and sizes. There is just no reason why you should stop yourself from experimenting with the look of the top hat for your costume. You can also choose to dress up in any other costume you desire, including a ghost, witch costume, insect or animal costume.
