Greg Wrote: "With regards to anything on paper showing the women how to make the flags, since everyone sewed back then (pretty much) all that was needed, I think, was for a QM officer to show them the finished product and let the new maker talk to women that had made them already. Since the flat fell seam is all over these flags, and that was a common sewing technique, it was just a matter of putting Part A to part B, etc. and this would not have been too hard to learn."

And since these flags were inspected before the woman got paid, any flaws or noticeable irregularities would likely have been cause for rejection. That probably only happened once per woman, at most. She then corrected the error, got paid for a "good" flag, and picked up a kit for her next one. Hence the standardized appearance of these flags.

A question just occurred to me: has anyone seen any sort of "personal" mark on any of these Depot flags? An initial? A stitched design of any sort? Something so small as to miss detection, or at least not be considered "unacceptable" to the inspector?

Nick A
Columbia MD