And it's why photos of teenage girls wearing large decorative flowers continue to flood the internet year after year. Homecoming mums are said to have hit the scene in the 1930s in the South ...

a homecoming mum. Mums were originally simple flowers or chrysanthemums given to a girl by her date. By the 1970s, mums began to bloom. The homecoming mums began to get larger and more elaborate.

Originally homecoming mums were made with real flowers, but they were eventually traded out for faux silk flowers to last longer. Ribbons and trinkets were added below the traditional flower to ...

A “mum” by definition is a noun meaning “a cultivated chrysanthemum,” which is a daisy-like flower with brightly ... on the night before the homecoming football game.

Homecoming Queen Told She Can’t Crown Successor After Wearing Mexican Heritage Sash to Graduation Festooned with ribbons, teddy bears, flowers real or faux, and, yes, cowbells, mums hang from ...

The homecoming mum phenomenon has taken over the internet in recent years. The trendy fake flower makes an appearance once a year, during football season in high schools — mainly those in ...

It had one flower," Valudos said ... saying she cried because her daughter's mum was "so beautiful." As homecoming season sweeps across Texas, Cecilia's mums remain a vibrant symbol of tradition ...

The University of Missouri is credited with creating the first homecoming mums, which back then were live Chrysanthemum flowers adorned with a few ribbons and given to a homecoming date.

having grown considerably since the days when a boy commemorated homecoming by giving a simple chrysanthemum corsage to a girl, and received a garter in return. Artificial flowers became the norm ...

Karly Evans tilted her head to the side as she compared different flower sizes. She was at the Mum Shop in Plano, shopping for accessories for her boyfriend’s homecoming garter. “Honestly ...