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Remember Christmas Corsages?

AuntG — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:53:35 GMT

Watching A Christmas Story brought back a memory when all the moms were wearing a corsage on their coats. I had forgotten how common corsages were at one time. Do you remember them? Bells, elves, greenery.... you name it.

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panda1234 — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:55:55 GMT

I don't, but it seems like such a sweet thing.

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qualitygal — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:58:39 GMT

I remember all the church ladies had them! LOL

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jackthebear — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:00:13 GMT

I don't either but this showed up on my blog feed yesterday

https://www.bluevelvetvintage.com/vintage_style_files/2017/12/17/50s-red-velvet-dress-how-to-make-a-vintage-christmas-corsage/

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piperbay — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:03:56 GMT

I remember Corsages more at Easter but do recall always seeing a big Christmas pin on coats.

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AuntG — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:08:58 GMT

Thanks for the pictures @jackthebear, I should try to make one.

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jackthebear — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:16:54 GMT

@AuntG wrote:
Thanks for the pictures @jackthebear, I should try to make one.

that would be fun, I think

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cherry — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:33:06 GMT

I do. The first year I was married, I had a white fur, pillbox, hat, and muff, and I wore one pinned on the muff

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SahmIam — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:46:58 GMT

The older church ladies (including my Grams) always wore one. Wonder what the history is on those corsages.

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cherry — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:52:10 GMT

I think corsages are sort of a thing of the past. I really never liked to wear anything other than a gardenia. They were flat, so I didn't feel it was overpowering me

Women use to wear them at Easter and Mother's Day too. But they also wore hats, which are all but gone

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Mayfayre — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:56:23 GMT

@AuntG wrote:

Watching A Christmas Story brought back a memory when all the moms were wearing a corsage on their coats. I had forgotten how common corsages were at one time. Do you remember them? Bells, elves, greenery.... you name it.

I remember them! We would buy our Mom one for Christmas and she would wear it on her coat to church. I had forgotten all about them. Thanks for the memory.

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OKPrincess — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 13:15:18 GMT

@cherry And don't forget the white gloves worn to church too.

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faeriemoon — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 13:31:44 GMT

I have always hated corsages. When my oldest got married I refused to wear one. Stuck the thing on my silk clutch.

Didn't want to have to drag around a nosegay either.

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151949 — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 13:37:13 GMT

My Dad would always buy my Mom a Corsage to wear on Christmas , Easter and her birthday.

Yes, I also remember Christmas pins that ladies would wear all through the season.

These were such nice , small gestures for the holidays.

I also remember getting my Mom and my MIL corsages to wear at my wedding.

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meallen616 — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:09:53 GMT

Hi everybody,

I remember my Mom always had a Christmas corsage and she would have a smaller version made for my coat. Also both of us wearing white gloves!

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blueroses47 — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:19:11 GMT

I was just thinking about Christmas corsages the other day. I was pinning a Christmas wreath pin on my coat and I was thinking how nobody wears pins like that anymore (I don't care, really, I think it's a fun thing)and I remembered the corsages.

Also about that time I remember that the girls in my sixth grade class were wearing jingle bells on their shoelaces. That was around 6th grade for me, so around 1958.

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beckyb1012 — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:50:02 GMT

It was not a corsage but she had a lot going on there in her festive ware from Christams Vacation. Great Aunt Bethany.

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chrystaltree — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:14:35 GMT

No, I don't remember that. It's like something from a different era and not in the cold Northeast.

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kitcat51 — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:50:49 GMT

Yes, my brother & I would pick it out, pay for it & it was our Christmas gift. I have no idea if my mom liked wearing them but all the ladies did along with those short white gloves. I don't remember what age I was when I got my first pair of white gloves & a sweet rose wrist corsage for Christmas but I loved them.

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Bri36 — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:13:05 GMT

I remember them more for Easter and Mother's Day.

My mom would never wear one. She said they were for "old ladies" LOL