flower feature–football mums (Dendranthema X Grandiflorum)

source: mcadamsfloral.com

Homecoming Mums – Synonymous with Texas High School Football

In the ’50′s, ’60′s and ’70′s, high school girls proudly wore their mums to homecoming.  Long ribbons in the school colors, a football trinket if the girl’s date was on the football team, a megaphone if she was a cheerleader, the school’s name applied to the ribbons with glue and glitter?

Some things have changed since the good old days, but homecoming mums are still synonymous with Texas high school football.  They just look a lot different now.

Today, florists still provide the traditional white mum – and of course, they’re huge because we’re talking Texas.  But the flower is usually silk now and the backing is covered with trinkets and gadgets.  Gaining in popularity are the mini-mum – for the boys to wear as boutonnieres, and the friendship or “little sister” mums.  The newest introductions are the mini wristlet mums and mum rings to be worn on the finger or attached to shoelaces.

Peer pressure has always existed, and today the girls want the biggest flower, the most adornments and the maximum number of streaming ribbons.  To accommodate the current trends, florists begin ordering flowers, a multitude of colored ribbons in various widths and textures, and press-on glitzy letters in the early summer.

Accessories for the corsages are limited only by the imagination.  In addition to those little footballs and megaphones of years past, today’s trappings include designer ribbons with helmets, cowbells, teddy bears, feathers, pennants, battery operated lights, glittery stars, chains, whistles, beads, candy, musical notes and instruments. 

sources: smudailycapums.com – sinkorswim.blogspot.com – somebodypinchme.com - http://annmartinphotography.blogspot.com

We personally think we’d fall over with one of these, but if it’s what you want, we can do it!

We are taking orders for these and for more local designs :) Give us a call – 801.403.9463 or email claire@rissfloral.com to order today! You have until two days before your homecoming to get your design ordered.