Homecoming Mum?

[TerriP]

Does anyone know what a "Homecoming Mum" is? I overheard someone talking about how she used to wear one every year when she was growing up in Texas. Since she technically wasn't talking to me I couldn't excatly ask her what they are... At first I assumed it was a plant, but the she said "wore" it? WTH?????

 

[tinkerrn]

A mum is a flower. She wore it as a corsage. My sister used to live in Utah, and during homecomming Mums are big out there. In Kentucky, there are no homecomming mums, at least in Louisville.

They are really pretty in the fall, hearty fall flowers. I think they are pretty big too. Sorry, thats all I know.

 

[lovemickeya]

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/projectsheet?pid=25245

Here is an example of what she is talking about- I am from TEXAS and it is a big $$ making business - homecoming season.

 

[Rafiki Rafiki Rafiki]

And apparently, people wear these 4 ft. long ribbons with BIG HONKIN' mums in the center of them ALL DAY AT SCHOOL. They cost about $40-$50.

Is someone ready to say WELCOME TO TEXAS to me yet?

 

[tikilyn]

Awww the good o'le days!! I still have my senior year mum. It's packed away in a box somewhere. The guy or parents buy them for a girl/daughter and she wears it to school and the football game and to the Homecoming dance. They are a big business here in Texas.

 

[lovemickeya]

WELCOME to TEXAS -YALL

That is they way WE do it HERE --BIG

Everything is bigger in Texas ..

$40-$50 is at the low end- My mom made mine and it was still about $65 to get the florist to make them they start at $40 and go up per every little thing you put on them (.10 per letter and sticker)

 

[4nana]

Ahhh, memories from the past. Years ago when our DD attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. the Mom's were presented Mum corsages in school colors yearly at their Homecoming games. I always felt it was a nice gesture and quite touching.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Welcome to Texas, Y'All!

I was one of the 'rebellious' ones in HS. I never had a date for Homecoming, but I usually went to Micheals and bought the materials to make one anyway.

I remember seeing some mums that were truly outrageous. I think my favorite was the one a soph girl had on my senior year. She had a huge 4 flower mum pinned to the front of her shirt which was attached by ribbons to a slightly smaller one (I think it had like 2 medium sized flowers) on the back of her shoulder which led, by ribbons and doodads, to a teenytiny mum pinned to the belt loop right in the middle of her bottom.

TOV

 

[Simba's Mom]

And apparently, people wear these 4 ft. long ribbons with BIG HONKIN' mums in the center of them ALL DAY AT SCHOOL. They cost about $40-$50.

Is someone ready to say WELCOME TO TEXAS to me yet?

Sorry, I can't say "Welcome to Texas", since I'm kinda new here-and one of those D*** Yankees besides. I'd never heard of Mums either til I moved here, then I not only heard of them, I heard them. You not only have that 4 ft. ribbon, but you have to have all these jingly things (and maybe even a little stuffed bear) hanging from the ribbon. And in some classes on that Homecoming Friday, the teachers make you take off the Mums because all the jingling throughout the room is too distracting. And then, if you're in band, the stodgey band director won't let the band students wear their Mums while they're performing their half-time show. Are you kidding? With all that jingling, if he let them wear their Mums, no one could hear the band play above the noise of the jingling!

 

[JunieJay]

WELCOME to TEXAS -YALL

That is they way WE do it HERE --BIG

Everything is bigger in Texas ..

$40-$50 is at the low end- My mom made mine and it was still about $65 to get the florist to make them they start at $40 and go up per every little thing you put on them (.10 per letter and sticker)

A friend from Texas just explained mums to me, I had never heard of anything like that! We don't do mums here on the East Coast, at least not that I am aware of!

 

[Jenn Lynn]

Never heard of them until recently. They are definitely interesting.

 

[katymae]

The ribbons match your school colors, so you had to coordinate your outfit to wear to school with that. And sometimes, if you were lucky, you had little cowbells hanging on it, so everytime you took a step...jingle-jangle! Suffice it to say it was noisy in the halls! We also used to have big letter stickers that spelled out your name and your date's name. You could wear either a live mum (chrysanthemum) or an artificial. Mine were all artificial so they are wrapped up in the attic. Haven't thought about that in a long time!! Thanks for the memories!

 

[WDWguru]

They were big in Missouri, too. We used to live in a small town in north central Missouri and my parents owned a flower shop - VERY big business this time of year. I used to go to the shop after school and make the bows/ribbons for them and attach the occasional little "THS" or football-shaped or year charm/sticker randomly. We made HUNDREDS and this was in a town of 6,000 people (of course all the area schools did it, too). They did it when my dad was in school there in the mid 60s, still did it when I was in high school in the late 80s, and assume they still do it now.