When Hubby invited me to the Razorbacks' Homecoming, mums were a big thing. They were huge flowers - one to a pin corsage or to a wrist corsage.
Hubby was broke as it was his first semester not working cuz his parents were able to pay for him and his brother to attend college. He was a TA, but that didn't pay much. So he asked whether I wanted a mum or a six pack. Easy answer. I thought then that the mums were ugly! Or as Sherlock Holmes would say "outre".
Looking back, I realize he was broke also cuz he was dating another woman at the time. You know like the Tooth Mangler's three fiancees in M.A.S.H.?
Which brings me to another story, but I'll save that for another time....
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
