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Flowers used for personal adornment were a popular fashion accessory throughout the 1800s up to the mid-1900s. Carrying or wearing fresh flowers was an important aspect of not only fashion but of good breeding and refined tastes. Corsages worn by women and boutonnieres worn by men were essential elements of dress for the tasteful upper- and middle-class Americans and Europeans at social functions.
- Credit: Smithsonian Gardens, Horticultural Artifacts Collection. Gift of Frances Jones Poetker.
- Rights: CC0
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