This is a beautiful two tone fawn and charcoal black top hat with a musky pink satin band. Feathers and an antique brooch completes this top hat.
The idiom ‘mad as a hatter ‘ was around long before Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’.
Colloquially used to describe an eccentric person. In the 1800’s milliners would use lead in their top hat making process. This lead got into the milleners system and some went insane. Hence the expression; ‘mad as a hatter’.