Bunting of blue, white and red stripes is available for these purposes. The flag should not be used as 'wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery', or for covering a speaker's desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general (exception for coffins).The flag should never be displayed with the union (the starred blue canton) down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.This tradition comes from the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, where countries were asked to dip their flag to King Edward VII: the American team flag bearer, Ralph Rose, refused, teammate Martin Sheridan famously proclaiming that 'this flag dips to no earthly king.' This tradition was codified as early as the 1911 U.S. The flag should never be dipped to any person or thing, unless it is the ensign responding to a salute from a ship of a foreign nation.In other countries and places, local etiquette applies. It is Section 1 of Title 4 of the United States Code (4 U.S.C. § 1 et seq).
The United States Flag Code establishes advisory rules for display and care of the flag of the United States.