Only in Texas

[SoonerTexan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWfdh...layer_embedded

I never understood this tradition, but then again, I wasn't born here.

[medpedspouse]

The mums or the giant mum thing?

I wasn't born in TX either but I thought the HC mums are kind of festive....then again, they were never that gigantic when I was in school. Haven't seen that ever - maybe it is a regional/city thing??

[L.Jane]

Yeah, when I would visit my Dallas family, I was always like, um, what the heck is this? I think the smaller simpler ones were nice, the bigger ones were creepy.

[Chrisada]

I have never in my life seen this before and thought you were referring to the mums we all have on our porch in the fall.

[ladymoreta]

Everything has to be bigger in Texas... Yeah, those are crazy huge - especially the one with shoulder straps that went front and back! Yikes! In my hometown, they are much smaller, the round piece being maybe 6 inches wide, and just a few long ribbons.

[medpedspouse]

In my hometown, they are much smaller, the round piece being maybe 6 inches wide, and just a few long ribbons.

This is what I have seen at the HomeComing games in TX.....AND there is an actual mum (flower) kind of like a larger corsage.

[scrub-jay]

I have never in my life seen this before and thought you were referring to the mums we all have on our porch in the fall.

Me too. Wow.

[GrayMatterWife]

Oh, gads--those things are SO HIDEOUS. Really bad. I mean, just awful. Back when I was teaching high school in Dallas, they were so distracting that the girls were forbidden from wearing them to school on the day before homecoming. I kid you not--some of them had battery-operated LIGHTS and music.

[DCJenn]

They sell all of the supplies at Michaels and every year there's more and more stuff to attach.

Silly.

J.

[SoonerTexan]

Some girls wore backpacks all day to balance the weight. The bells in the hallway would drive everyone nuts. My brother spent about $50 just on supplies for the relatively "normal" sized one my sister helped him make for his girlfriend--buying it would have cost about $200. Good way to make money, though.

That's, uh, CRAZY! They aren't even attractive, flattering, pretty, make a person smell good ... I see no redeeming value. And please, who wears all black to work with white feathers?

[v-girl]

Didn't watch the whole video, but I live in (and grew up in) Collin County. We like our mums big. I have no idea why though. We just do.

[HouseofWool]

This must be another crazy texas thang. I've never heard of mums way up north, in the hinterlands.

[cylverdust]

Didn't watch the whole video, but I live in (and grew up in) Collin County. We like our mums big. I have no idea why though. We just do.

haha.. not to hijack... but i grew up in Fannin County.. and we were the same... the bigger the better!!

[moonlight]

That's, uh, CRAZY! They aren't even attractive, flattering, pretty, make a person smell good ... I see no redeeming value. And please, who wears all black to work with white feathers?

Umm. Careful there.

SoonerTexan- This brings back so many happy fun memories from my childhood and high school life back home. Thanks for the link. That really made me smile (and miss home)!!