Corsages

We got it very late in the day because my son kept saying, No one gets corsages for people anymore. ❋ Roseanne Barr (2011)

Playing with colours, shapes and patterns a florist now can offer you exciting range of wreaths, corsages, bouquets or boutonnieres. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They're treated specially: they have their special seats, and special corsages, they're very important. ❋ Maria Lin (2012)

Someone should tell her not too many people in the lower 48 wear corsages anymore. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In planning the wedding, she and her mother set about creating little corsages for each chair to match colors and plates and did the seating arrangements and invitations and everything else all by themselves, and just sent me a check for half of it. ❋ Roseanne Barr (2011)

Did the whole wedding (bouquets, corsages, boutonnieres, table centerpieces, etc) for $400. ❋ Candid Engineer (2009)

They were engaged before they graduated—she had to say yes that night while they still wore their crowns and corsages. ❋ Cara Hoffman (2011)

I picked wildflowers all summer and dried them to make my bouquet as well as corsages and boutonnieres. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Several teenagers dropped off corsages near a makeshift memorial at Haven Drugs in honor of the high-school senior. ❋ Sean Gardiner (2011)

Brandi Ramundo of West Chicago, Ill., rushed out to a Michaels arts-and-crafts store April 16 to cobble together corsages for her seven-year-old twins, who were going to a father-daughter dance. ❋ Ann Zimmerman (2011)

Figure 2: I was surprised that it isn't too hard to make corsages. ❋ Candid Engineer (2009)

In the 20s, stylish flappers wore flowers as corsages on their jacket lapels; it was in the 40s and 50s that they made the migration to the hats. ❋ Colleen Mullaney (2010)