But inevitably they do have the occasional prang. Living in London I often see them in action and they are impressive, leap-frogging the cavalcade they protect to stop the traffic ahead. They were escorting a small group of black cars with the Lebanese flag flying on the bonnet of the lead car. In case they offer to escort me I have my own pennant, made by Turtle and Pearce flag makers, est. The Swiss flag is square, I think only one other country has the same shape.
All their Canton flags are the same. They fly flags more than we do in the UK which is colourful and appealing. No mountain restaurant would be without the bear of Bern flying from a flagpole and almost every chalet has either a Swiss, a Cantonal or a village flag flying, or all three. The square is a far better shape than the rectangle for what is essentially heraldry. The Union flag would look much better square.
The same would be true of your pennant. Of course there are other traditional shapes that work well such as the heraldic pennant, long and tapering. What is particularly ugly is shaping a flag to fly taunt from an angled flagpole on the facade of a building.
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