The trend for custom flags have shifted over time from commercial to personal, and patterned to personalized. Due to the increasing use of these flags on everyday living, it had to be personalized to cater to the different styles and emerging ideas. The flavor of how the layout turned out changed to suit the generation of people using them, hence you may see weird yet effective ways to convey messages using unseen designs and styles.

While there is a fine line between what is still called a flag, and what is already another form, crossing that line is not really a big deal with society. You can see different shapes of flags instead of the usual rectangle used commonly in the earlier days.

It may be safe to assume that the days of using custom flags are still in the prime of its existence. Many are using them, many are benefiting with them, and many are even further customizing them to suit them. Even the internet has seen a virtual customization of the term “flag”. With the picture badges being increasingly popular to support a certain representation, these pictures are already considered flags since they have a public representation.

Perhaps custom flags will be here to stay as long as people would continue trying to represent something. It is the idea of conveying a message and marking a territory of influence which makes custom flags exist. It is the tangible counterpart of just merely words and thoughts put together to acknowledge ownership or impart a specific message to others.

So for the question “are custom flags still in?” the answer is a resounding “Yes!”