hatter

• A hatter is a maker or seller of hats who works at a millinery.
• Mad as a hatter is a proverbial phrase.
• The Mad hatter is a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a novel written in 1865 by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
• The Batman episode Mad as a Hatter (Batman: The Animated Series).

Other uses

• Luton Town Football Club (Luton, Bedfordshire, England) are commonly known as "The Hatters" due to the hatting industry in the town, this nickname also being shared by Stockport County Football Club. A meeting of the two sides often is billed as "The Hatters Derby".
• Students who attend Hatboro-Horsham School District are known as Hatters. This refers to Hatboro's history of hat production.
• Danbury, Connecticut's Danbury High School's mascot is the Hatter because Danbury was the hat center of the world from the 19th century to about the early 20th century. Danbury's professional hockey team is known as the Mad Hatters.
• Batman's rogues gallery includes Jervis Tetch, a delusional man obsessed with hats. He named and stylized himself after "the Mad Hatter" from Carroll's stories due to his own insanity, a pronounced fixation on the Alice in Wonderland stories, and a lifelong fascination with hats of all shapes and forms. His crimes usually include mind control devices placed within some form of headwear.
• Hatter Fox is a 1973 best selling novel by Marilyn Harris, adapted for the 1977 CBS movie A Girl Called Hatter Fox. As made clear in the later case, "Hatter" in this context is used as a female first name.
• The mascot of Stetson University's athletic teams is the Hatter.
• The Hatters is a well-known Tournament Fastpitch Softball Organization in Florida known as Hatters Gold.

See also

• Hatter's Castle
• Mad Hatter
• Mad Hatter (comics)
• Mad Hatter (Bank Robber)

References

External links

• "Mad as a Hatter" at Urban Legends
• Questions & Answers: Mad as a Hatter
• "As mad as a hatter" at Phrasefinder

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