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 ...

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 ...

Texas high schoolers show up on the Friday of the homecoming football game to display their mums and garters. The word mum is short for the chrysanthemum flower. Ribbons are attached to these ...

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.

What started as a simple flower corsage—using fall’s classic ... garters on elastic bands on their arms. Since Texas homecoming mums are not exactly subtle and sized quite gigantically with ...

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 ...

making homecoming dreams come true, one ginormous mum at a time. "When I first started, it wasn't very big. It had one flower. If it had two or three, it was massive. Now it has evolved into ...

Rosi Garcia Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS On Friday, September 20, 2024, 9:09 AM, Rosi Garcia wrote: Forney high school homecoming mums.Lauren Ochoa on the left she’s a sophomore ...

Her homecoming wear had a pink theme that she incorporated into her mum, and homecoming flowers and dress. She went all out for her senior year, spending about $400 on her mum because she makes ...