Jefferson's Hats

"Evil Queen: The Mad Hatter's hat! But, wasn't it destroyed? Zelena: He was a hatter; he had multiples. Inside are portals to every realm."

- Evil Queen and Zelena

Jefferson's Hats are magical items featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. They first appear in the seventeenth episode of the first season.

Portal of Doors
The Portal of Doors are rooms located in each hat where portals to various other locations 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.

First Hat
The Portal of Doors in the first hat is circular and rounded with red curtains. The floor is made of a dark stone with a golden pattern laid into it.

Visible doors include:
 * 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 top and sides
 * 15) Pink Door with a dark square mechanism in the center
 * 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 location:
 * Fairy Tale Land
 * Enchanted Forest
 * Camelot
 * Land Without Color
 * Victorian England

Second Hat
The Portal of Doors in the second hat is circular and rounded by black wallpaper with a white pattern. Between each door is a candle sconce with two candles. The floor is black with a white geometric pattern in the center, surrounded by the symbols of playing card suits at each quarter of the circle: diamond, spade, heart and club.

There are a total of twelve doors located inside the second hat:
 * 1) Tiki Mask Door
 * 2) Golden Curtain Portal: Oz
 * 3) Stacked Stones Door with egyptian symbols
 * 4) Red Oriental Door with black beams and a golden insignia
 * 5) Norse-looking Door with metal frames
 * 6) Door with Icicles: Arendelle
 * 7) Triangle Pattern Door
 * 8) Golden Swirls Door
 * 9) Fire Pentacle Door
 * 10) Gray Door with two squares
 * 11) Archway Door with a porthole
 * 12) Unseen door

Moreover, some of the destinations to which these doors lead have been revealed, even if it remains unknown which door leads to which location:
 * Agrabah. Note that the Triangle Pattern Door greatly resembles the triangle patterns in Jasmine's Agrabahn Palace.

Trivia

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On-Screen Notes

 * According to the Mad Hatter, the number of people that go into the first 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.
 * However, the second hat appears to forgo this rule, with numerous people fleeing their dying worlds and escaping into the Portal of Doors.
 * It may only be a rule pertaining to Wonderland, which is loathed by Jefferson and Rumplestiltskin, to keep its bizarre magic out of other worlds.
 * The first hat was able to travel in time between Storybrooke and the Enchanted Forest during the Dark Curse.
 * Rumplestiltskin states the hat can only reach worlds with magic. Therefore, travelling to the Land Without Magic via the hat is impossible.
 * Zelena later notes this rule applies to the second hat as well.
 * The walls and floor on the storybook page with the door, which Henry finds, have the same design as the inside of the first hat.
 * A door inside the second hat features the same motif as the floor in Hades' Lair: a pentacle with pitchforks at the edges.


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Production 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", Kelly 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. She 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, Kelly 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.
 * 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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Popular Culture

 * 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, whereas the Rabbit Holes are an entirely different kind of portal.
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Set Dressing

 * The same hat box prop is on a shelf in Mr. Gold's office in "The Return" and "A Land Without Magic".

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.