Jefferson's Hats

"It's the Mad Hatter's hat. It's a portal between worlds."

- Henry to David

Jefferson's Hat is a magical item featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the seventeenth episode of the first season.

Portal of Doors
The Portal of Doors is a room where portals to various other lands are located. It is accessible to anyone who jumps into the hat. The room is circular and rounded with red curtains containing at least seventeen different doors. Some of known doors are:
 * 1) Tan Door
 * 2) Grey Door
 * 3) Pink Brick Door
 * 4) Green Door with a Hole
 * 5) Brown Door with Trees
 * 6) Blue Door with Four Holes
 * 7) Medieval Brown and Grey Door
 * 8) Light Red Door with Logograms on it
 * 9) Reddish Door
 * 10) Oriental Style Red Door with Golden Knobs
 * 11) Green Curtain Door: Oz ; the door has two handles shaped like an O with a golden Z on them
 * 12) Looking Glass: Wonderland
 * 13) Coffin-like Door
 * 14) Normal Door with a Keyhole
 * 15) Pink Door
 * 16) Greyish Door
 * 17) Stone-like Door

Trivia

 * For the episode, "Hat Trick", Canadian-based fine headwear maker Lucy Dunlap, also known as The Saucy Milliner, created several duplicates of Jefferson's hat. One for when the hat is opened into a portal to Wonderland, another that Emma made in Jefferson's house in Storybrooke, third which Jefferson was making while trapped in Wonderland and a fourth for Sebastian Stan's stunt double in the scene Jefferson is shoved out the window by Mary Margaret. Lucy made additional hats in various states of production as well as a hat that served as one Jefferson was working on in Storybrooke.
 * In the second season, at the request of the show production team, Lucy fashioned more duplicates of Jefferson's hat. These hats were used for filming the episodes "Broken" and "We Are Both".
 * According to the Mad Hatter, the number of people that go into the hat must come out. It seems to be a rule for the hat, not for a world. Otherwise, the circumstances of Jefferson, Dr. Frankenstein and Rumplestiltskin's travels from and to the Land Without Color have yet to be explored.
 * It can be assumed that a door in the portal leads to the Land Without Color because the Mad Hatter sent Dr. Frankenstein home through the hat.
 * In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", the Portal of Doors is found at the bottom of a rabbit hole. In Once Upon a Time, it is found in the hat.
 * It is unknown if the Fairy Tale Land is behind one of the portal doors.
 * The hat box is on a shelf in Mr. Gold's office in "The Return".
 * Rumplestiltskin states the hat can only reach lands with magic. Therefore, travelling to the Land Without Magic via the hat is impossible.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.


 * Jefferson's Hat appears in Henry's storybook in "Hat Trick".