A chevron is a straight or slightly curved line bent in the middle at approximately ninety degrees. We see these all over the place -- one such place is on military uniforms. A private has one of these on their sleeves, a corporal has two, and a Sargeant has three. They are a common feature on flags -- the flag depicted is the flag of the North American Vexilogical Association; other Vexilogical organizations also favor the chevron. Vexillology is the study of flags, thus the chevron is a flag lover's ideal, and this is a flag of flags.
The chevron it is in fact one of the very first abstract symbols ever. The Soviet experimental filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein wrote an essay comparing the language of film montage to Chinese pictograms (which are known to be at least 4,000 years old), in which he noted that a chevron was symbolic of 'house', a wavy line of 'woman', but when you put the chevron over the wavy line the word became 'tranquility'. Thus to have a home and a woman was to live in tranquility.
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