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 many unique doors. Some of the known doors are:
 * 1) Tan Door
 * 2) Gray Door
 * 3) Pink Brick Door
 * 4) Lime Green Door with a centered window/mirror
 * 5) Brown Door with a tree design
 * 6) Sky Blue Door with four gray handles
 * 7) Medieval Brown & Gray Door
 * 8) Light Red Door with logograms
 * 9) Dark Red Door with a white pattern
 * 10) Red Oriental Door
 * 11) Emerald Green Curtain: Oz
 * 12) Looking Glass: Wonderland
 * 13) Glass Elevator Door
 * 14) Light Brown Door with windows on the sides
 * 15) Pink Door
 * 16) Dark Gray Door
 * 17) Wooden Door with a stone door frame

Moreover, some of the destinations to which these doors lead have been revealed, even if it remains unknown which door leads to which land:
 * Land Without Color
 * Victorian England
 * Camelot

Trivia

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On-Screen Notes

 * According to the Mad Hatter, the number of people that go into the hat must come out. He explains it as 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.
 * 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.
 * The hat box is on a shelf in Mr. Gold's office in "The Return" and "A Land Without Magic".
 * Jefferson's Hat is able to travel in time.
 * Rumplestiltskin states the hat can only reach worlds with magic. Therefore, travelling to the Land Without Magic via the hat is impossible.
 * The walls and floor on the storybook page with the door, which Henry finds, have the same design as the inside of the hat.
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Production Notes

 * In the original "Hat Trick" script, an emerald brick door was supposed to be among the others. This might have been replaced by the pink brick door, or by the emerald curtains that lead to Oz.
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Props Notes

 * The Hat was made by a Canadian-based fine headwear maker Kelly Dunlap, who is also known as The Saucy Milliner. For the episode "Hat Trick", Lucy created several duplicates of the 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".
 * The liner inside the actual hat prop is the same design used for the floor in the Portal of Doors. However, this has been removed (either manually or with computer effects) from the final version, where it looks plain black.

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.


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