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Man with An American flag shirt, reaction to kids protesting gun violence in their schools.
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4 U.S. Code § 1 - Flag; stripes and stars on: The flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be forty-eight stars, white in a blue field.
Our flag is a DESIGN and US Code does not designate anything other than that.
Flag; stripes and stars on
Even from the thing you quoted one can easily interpret it as referring only to flags. A reasonable average person most certainly would.
A flag is defined as
a usually rectangular piece of fabric of distinctive design that is used as a symbol (as of a nation), as a signaling device, or as a decoration
The Flag Code § 1 codifies what our distinctive design
4 U.S. Code § 8 - Respect for flag (d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.
A piece of fabric with our nations distinctive design is not to be used as apparel
A reasonable average person would wonder why if this is only referring to cloth with grommets it wasn’t specifically stated since it was enacted and made effective in 1998…
I'm dying at the thought of you thinking you could fly a shirt like this on a flagpole and it would be a flag.
A flag is a piece of fabric with a specific design on it.
When the Stars and Stripes are put on a piece of fabric it then becomes the American flag.
The Flag Code says you can not mutilate the American flag by cutting it up and turning it into apparel.
No one said anything about taking a button up tee or some board shorts and hoisting them up a flagpole. Probably because Title 4 of the United States Code is very specific about the size and ratios of a proper American flag.
But if you want to hang your clothes on a vertical clothes line… go for it?