Go Big Or Go Homecoming: Supersized Corsages
 

Whaaaaaaaat?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow...sized-corsages

Ha yea... a little while ago, my bf, who grew up just outside of Dallas, told me about these and showed me some pictures. I was all WTF?! He said they can cost hundreds of dollars.

Crazy.

ETA: I just showed him the slideshow and I asked if he had to wear something similar to the guys here (pic 3)... he said, "Yea, except the ribbons were longer; by at least a few feet. They were F'ing annoying." LOL

woooooow

It's rare that something about high school life takes me by surprise, but I wasn't ready for this.

Back when the daughter was in high school they got ridiculously elaborate with long, long ribbons, but nothing you had to hang around your neck.
Never heard of them for guys, but why not?
I haven't seen one in years on the University of Alabama campus. Our Mortar Board honorary used to sell them.

Wow! My niece got similar corsages from her date when she was invited to Homecoming and Prom at her Texas HS, but if memory serves, the body of the corsage was about the size of the old fashioned mum football corsage and had tendrilly ribbons that hung down fairly long. I don't think it involved real flowers. I believe that the girls returned the favor and made them for their dates.

That mum is definitely not the norm. This is about normal size.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63...ps0f133696.jpg

Those have always been popular in the South. I remember seeing picts of my cousin from her school dances in the 70s and always thought WTF!

The "models" look unhappy. and good grief one is standing on a roof! never saw this growing up in CA. huh.

As someone also from the west coast, I agree. I've never seen anything like this and where I live people would stare at you like you had a horn growing on your head if they saw you with one of these!

:eek::D:p;) ^^^^ yes indeed!

Well, that's certainly, uh, different.

Back in the day (1981), I had a TRIPLE MUM (real flowers:none of those fake mums) with a "W" for Waller, because I had to miss my Magnolia homecoming since my boyfriend was in the Waller band. Conveniently, I could flip the W to become a M. The triple was as large as they came then - I was quite the rock star for that one day.

This person makes duck tape homecoming mums.

I don't get it, so people (guys and girls alike) wear these to dances? Don't they get in the way or fall off?



Also, to anyone has bought one, how much would the average "mum" be?