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Tony in Tarzana said:

My latest Royal Deluxe Stetson fedora has a bound edge like that.

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Good point. My Stetsonian too (and Matt's as I recall).

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feltfan said:

I'm not sure I follow the comment about the edge binding.
Equal width top and bottom is hardly a requirement of fedoras.

I have more than one fedora with a bound edge that differs
on top and bottom. It was a style offered by more than one
hat maker. Off the top of my head, I have two Caxton fedoras
that are made that way and have the stitching hidden on top
(for the Brad Bowers among us, it appears to have been stitched
on top, folded over, stretched over the edge, and then stitched
through the bottom), but I'm sure I have others with similarly
asymetrical bindings. The stitching was sometimes used as
further decoration in 40s and 50s hats.

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Well, I considered fedora-izing a black Knox Homburg with an asymetrical edge binding but, to my eye, it just didn't look like the right thing to do. On that one, the binding covers considerable territory on the bottom and very, very little on the top. It was obviously designed for its brim to be worn up all around, with a definite curl at the edge, so that the ribbon binding could be seen in all its glory.
So what did I do? Oh, I decided to give it a telescope crown. That probably wasn't the best thing to do either. About the best I can say for it is that it's, well, unique. But wotthehell, it didn't cost much, and it can always be put back the way it was.