With Winter Formal right around the corner, the students of Chagrin Falls have begun to shop for fresh ties and stylish dresses, and while most people change their attires from dance to dance... one thing stays the same. The freaking corsages and boutineers! The red squiggly line just appeared on my screen, under boutineers, but I'm not even going to bother finding the correct spelling– just to emphasize their ridiculousness. EVERY SINGLE DANCE we spend 10 to 25 dollars on these silly little flowers that no one likes to wear. Okay, I concede that freshman year the whole routine of figuring out how to pin a flower onto a sports coat was cute, but around seven dances later it's just getting old. I sincerely feel bad for the busboy who must clean up a table littered with flowery accessories, after a Formal group leaves their restaurant. They itch! They scratch! They annoy! They are idiotic social norms. Thank goodness that finally this year, our group found some sense and decided to rid ourselves of this horrid tradition. It will assuredly lead to a more comfortable, less expensive, and overall better last Winter Formal ever.Thursday, February 24, 2011
Social Norms
With Winter Formal right around the corner, the students of Chagrin Falls have begun to shop for fresh ties and stylish dresses, and while most people change their attires from dance to dance... one thing stays the same. The freaking corsages and boutineers! The red squiggly line just appeared on my screen, under boutineers, but I'm not even going to bother finding the correct spelling– just to emphasize their ridiculousness. EVERY SINGLE DANCE we spend 10 to 25 dollars on these silly little flowers that no one likes to wear. Okay, I concede that freshman year the whole routine of figuring out how to pin a flower onto a sports coat was cute, but around seven dances later it's just getting old. I sincerely feel bad for the busboy who must clean up a table littered with flowery accessories, after a Formal group leaves their restaurant. They itch! They scratch! They annoy! They are idiotic social norms. Thank goodness that finally this year, our group found some sense and decided to rid ourselves of this horrid tradition. It will assuredly lead to a more comfortable, less expensive, and overall better last Winter Formal ever.
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John, I completely agree with you. These items seem completely unnecessary, my favorite part about them is that each year you have to tell the florists the specific color of your date's dress and everything, yet I swear every year they all look almost exactly the same. I have always figured they were just tradition, but how did it get started in the first place? which obnoxious individual decided it was necessary to create minerature flower designs for suits and dresses?
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