For example, if the boy plays soccer and the girl is on the cheer team, the mum might contain a bear with a cheer costume and a soccer ball. The season begins early for preorders in September and the season runs through October and November. This family-owned institution has been around since and serves 40 area schools with standard and custom Homecoming Mums as a fundraiser. Just add silk flowers, attach lots of ribbons, bells, stickers, feathers, LED lights optional , and sometimes add music streaming music through Bluetooth into speakers.
Girls can parade all over the school like cows with bells around their necks! The Prom is perhaps the most significant social event in high school life here in the US. It is generally for seniors alone but sometimes juniors too.
Traditionally, the boys give his date a wrist corsage or nosegay these days at pick-up time. Before these kids hit the dance party, they usually do a group photoshoot. Many will hire a professional photographer to make the most of the event and make sure everyone gets a great picture. Plus, it may be their last chance for close friends to have pictures together and create a lasting memory.
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Then after dinner, they are off to making a lot of fun memories. It is really once in a lifetime memorable experience! Homecoming is generally considered a semi-formal event which means the dresses are a little less formal; think about relaxed, casual, or a cute cocktail dress. In most places, seniors are distinguished by different colored flowers, Tommy Potter, from Sugar Land, observed that the seniors mums at his school were white, and underclassmen mums were red.
This seems to be a pattern that holds for the majority of the state, but is currently unobservable in the southernmost part of the state. Depending on the school and location, there is also variation in when mums are worn. In most places, students exchange with their dates in the morning on Friday, where them all day at school, to the homecoming game that night, and to the homecoming dance the next night.
There are exceptions to this, however. Tommy from Sugar Land remembered some people wearing them the entire week before the homecoming game. On the other end of the spectrum, many students at Memorial High School in McAllen wore them only to the dance, not to school or to the game.
However, across town at McAllen High School, the students fit in to the more typical pattern of school, game, and dance. There is some variation between schools in patterns in who wears them. According to Nathan Vance from Corpus Christi, the school required that all members of the homecoming court king and queen nominees and the dukes and duchesses from all organizations wear mums or garters.
Because it was a requirement, the school paid for them for all court members. At many schools, the cheerleaders and drill team will have small mums on their hip, leg, or ankle, particularly during the game. By appealing to school leaders, trends would start for that year. Some districts extend the mum tradition to middle schools. Students at Morris Middle School in McAllen petitioned to have their own homecoming game and dance that they could wear mums to. The very spirited take this even further, purchasing Peewee mums for small children to wear to the football game.
Students can easily personalize their mums and garters for themselves. The first, easiest, and universal method of personalization is having your name and that of your date put on ribbons. From there, trinkets and stickers are added to reflect who people are and what you do. Companies like ACI Wholesale in Dallas sell cleats, megaphones, boots, mascots, balls, musical notes, graduation caps, class indicators, and garlands in various sizes and colors.
These can be selected from when ordering and incorporated into the mum or garter in various ways. Some people will also add stuffed animals, usually either their school mascot or some sort of animal teddy bear, Tweety Bird that they really like. Many students will buy their mums and garters from florist shops that do a large mum business starting in about August.
Typically mums bought from professional florists are slightly more expensive, but they also tend to have more of a guarantee of good quality. Other students will buy theirs from crafters who make an effort to market them more directly to students. This can include teachers, family friends, people who come and sell them directly at the school, such as at Calallan High School in Corpus Christi, or even people who set up shop out of truck beds by the side of the road such a truck was found in La Joya.
Still other students choose a more time consuming method and make them themselves. This usually requires going to a floral wholesaler or craft store to purchase the mum, backing, ribbons, trinkets, letters, and garter.
Some stores sell pre-made backings with ribbons already attached. This method can require a lot of time, particularly for the inexperienced, and a lot of money, particularly if you are only going to be making one.
The price for mums and garters can vary dramatically. Nathan from Corpus remembers paying ten or twenty dollars for his garter from a woman in his school parking lot. Mums, which are bigger and therefore allow for more embellishment, vary even more. Not everyone is content to simply have one double mum on their chest, however.
To this end, many mum shops, florists, and crafters make tiny mums for fingers, wristlet mums, mums to be worn on the hip, mums for legs and ankles, bows, sashes, door mums, and spirit sticks.
All of these many be worn with mums or individually. Christopher Solon from Kingwood reported that his brother and their girlfriend, as well as some of their friends, chose simple corsages and completely eliminated mums and garters all together.
Cristina from McAllen did not receive a mum her senior year of high school, but instead received a basket of food tied with school spirited ribbons. Some florists have made a departure from the original form of mum, the homecoming mum, and have branched out into baby mums.
Homecoming mums and garters are almost entirely traditional in transmission. This applies to both the florists who make them and then students who buy them. Her mother was a florist and her father ran the nursery. At this time, mums were still made using fresh mums and so the night before a homecoming celebration they would have to stay up to make them.
Most other florists learn during mum season from other florists they work with. For students, most learn about the tradition in the month or two preceding their first homecoming experience, whether it is in middle school or high school.
If he or she has a parent who is from Texas, they often will find out from them. Perhaps because date etiquette and floral accoutrements are traditionally a female domain, the mother is more often the vehicle for transmission then the father. Other students, like Marin, found out from watching their older siblings go to their high school homecomings. For those who did not have older siblings to learn from or parents who were familiarized with Texas traditions, peers took the role of teacher when it came to this school custom.
Almost all students interviewed, no matter where they were from, focused on two main functions of homecoming mums: as artifacts of school spirit, and advertisements of your date. According to Marin:. Since then, they have continued to grow. Over the years, as the Texas tradition has grown more popular and more prominent on social media, the mums have become more elaborate and larger in size.
Bells and whistles Mums have typically included decor like students' graduation year, high school mascot, charms, bells, ribbons and even LED lights. The most popular piece of decoration though has been the small stuffed teddy bear. But now, the bears have become less popular. Some stretch their creativity.
One teen went all out with an ode to her fast food favorite, Whataburger.
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