Go Big Or Go Homecoming: Supersized Corsages

[WestcoastWonder]

Originally Posted by ZTA1550

A friend and I made these throughout high school for our sons' homecoming dates. We got together every Sunday afternoon for a month -- surrounded by ribbons, trinkets (whistles, bells, mini teddy bears, etc.), glitter letters spelling out their names (son and his date), feather boas, and anything else we could come up with to put on there! Not only do they wear them to the football game and dance, but they also wear them all day to classes! Don't even ask how much they cost -- we didn't keep track because our husbands would have killed us!

DID I READ THAT RIGHT???

[ZTA1550]

Originally Posted by WestcoastWonder

DID I READ THAT RIGHT???

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."