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 ...

"So they kind of gave me some ideas, which is wonderful ... In her own words, a homecoming mum is a flower adorned with ribbons and noise makers -- and it's a bit over the top.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Homecoming mums are traditionally known to have been first seen in Texas in 1930. But the trend actually started in Missouri. It started with a simple flower and has blossomed into an extravagant ...

Creating large homecoming mums is something ... which is called a garter. Mums are not to be confused with the chrysanthemum, which is an actual flower. In the past, the mum was used for ...

For decades, Texas high schoolers have shown 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 ...