That sounds very specific. Whoever wrote that code really wanted the flag to have dignity. Shame it's not enforced, because I'm dead sure you can find shorts looking like the flag.
PS: Yup. Proving one more time that if codes aren't enforced with state punishment, people won't follow them.
I'm not an expert on Flag Law but as far as I've always understood it, those rules mean an actual US Flag, not just the flag's design. You're not supposed to take an actual flag and fashion it into clothing, but you can put the design on things.
The flag. Not the design the flag itself. You can have star and stripe patterns wherever you want the law is about not cutting up an actual flag or using it in any way besides displaying as a flag. Many people mix that up thinking flag prints on shirts or having stripes and stars in nonspecific orientations is somehow also a violation there. So yeah bikini designs that use flag print are completely legal but if someone puts an actual flag on as a cape THAT is a violation. Same if someone cut up an old flag to see a blanket or shirt out of it.
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