Rags Make Uniforms
A photograph of a worker cutting cloth at a machine fills the upper area, with a stylised blue-uniformed airman at lower right. The headline links donated rags to forces' uniforms; the ordinary tailor in shirtsleeves is the plain-folks element.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- H.M. Stationery Office (government), printed by Hubners Ltd, London
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
H.M. Stationery Office; printed by Hubners Ltd, 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, RG 44.
Text on the object
RAGS MAKE UNIFORMS Printed for H.M.Stationery Office by HUBNERS LTD., 51-2487.
