Yes, indeed. Our senior year masterpieces (in white and silver for seniors -- freshmen, sophomores and juniors used the school colors of black and red) included 6" teddy bears fastened to the flowers themselves. We even created clothes for the bears that resembled the marching band uniform (all the kids were in marching band). My son's date's mum was so heavy we had to fasten it around her neck with a sort of harness-thing. How they wear these things all day is beyond me -- but they do! And at my son's HS in a suburb of Dallas, when it comes to mums, it's "Go Big or Go Home."

My Texas nephew just posted this on his FB:

http://yestotexas.com/12-things-non-...mecoming-mums/

To answer one of the questions - at the dance, we had "mum check" rooms like a coat check room (which we certainly DON'T need in Texas in the fall) that volunteer moms staffed so girls could bring them to the dance if they wanted to. Mostly they are worn during the spirit day at school and at the game and then in pictures before the dance. I know in the Dallas suburbs they have MUM Stores like other places have Halloween stores that just pop up during "the season". You can easily spend $150-$200! However, our school band parents made them as a fundraiser and they were more like $60-$80. It's a fun tradition.

That must have been a really big room, to check those monstrous things.

In the late sixties in Houston, we wore double or triple mums that had about 3 ribbons for each flower and maybe a few small accessories like tiny cowbells would be on the ribbons. Maybe one flower would have 'RS' on it in pipe cleaners and the other would have the year. And we thought those were big!

They weren't, however, too cumbersome to dance with.

We also only wore ours the day of the Homecoming game, but we wore them from the start of the day until the end of the game.

I also went to high school in DFW and remember these obnoxious things well... teddy bears, cowbells, plastic whistles, you-name-it.

In my days (class of '91) mums went from double to triple, and also the first "over-the-shoulder" mums appeared. Yes, it was utterly obnoxious, but also somewhat of a rite of passage.

However, our insane mums had nothing on these "beauties."

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Our mums weren't even CLOSE to that big, but did have the advantage of being made of real mums. The height of coolness was to have the florist deliver your mum to school. Then you got the added bonus of being called down to the office to pick it up.

Is it possible to go too over the top on this and be the girl that walks in and everyone looks at you like

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They remind of me the scene in Time Bandits where they are doing the dance in Ancient Greece.

It looks like really bad portuguese man of war halloween costumes.

Yes! Men-o-war (man-o-wars?) that have picked up a few victims in their tentacles!

Wow. My dad has lived in Dallas for over 10 years now and this is the first I've ever heard of these. Some of those look like they would be kind of heavy!

Duct tape mum.


These (all these giant mum things, not just the duct tape ones) are some of the strangest things I've ever seen..... right on par with the head swinging in doorjambs.