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It's not backwards. It's actually correct vexillology.
Flags don't have a right-to-left, they have a hoist (the flagpole half) and a fly (the other half)
When rendered on print/screen, a flag has the hoist on the left and the fly on the right typically. HOWEVER, when rendered on moving objects, such as vehicles or clothing, the hoist is always at the part facing forward. Mentally draw a flagpole attached to it and figures walking in the same direction the shoe would be walking if someone is wearing it. Then it would make sense.
Here are some examples:
Soldier:
Vehicle:
A better visualisation of how it would look:
Even in the UK:
As for the lack of stars and stripes, no clue. But it could easily just be aesthetic as it would look too crammed with a proper design.
Overall, it's still hideous. Lol.
Oh, very interesting! Thank you. Of course that makes sense if you imagine the movement. My mistake.
Glad I can be of help! I'm not overly involved in US politics, but I vaguely recall there being some form of "black US Flag" going about which did have some horrible connotations, so I can sort of see how you jumped to this conclusion that it was some form of dogwhistle 🤣 I cannot find any meaning of a five starred flag either, so my best guess is aesthetic. I thought more would look nice, but maybe that would make the production cost a whopping 11% of $300 rather than 10% 🤣
TIL, thanks for the informative comment!
Has no one ever looked at a pair of Nike shoes? It's the same.
Huh, TIL. Thanks for explaining this, I'm probably going to start noticing this everywhere now, and I'll think of you because of this.