# Girls who wear flowers behind their ears/in their hair... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 6, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415 "2010-08-06T16:27:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/21 "2010-08-06T19:57:21Z")
> [@palacheck](#): > > One of my nieces does this. She sees a nice flower and picks it. > > Do they not have flowers where you live? I have to say, preparing to pick a flower by polling strangers on the internet is pretty out there.😛 Well, I live in a city, so I don’t see many flowers growing wild. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/22 "2010-08-07T01:41:19Z")
I have pictures of a friend I took after I fixed her hair into chignon and added roses. She looks _good_ in those pix. Another friend had very small white flowers in her hair (which was braided) for her wedding. The effect was lovely. I was amazed that whoever had done it had put little tiny capsules of water on the stems of each of the flowers so they wouldn’t wilt. Lasted all day they did. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/23 "2010-08-07T01:54:30Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > _Anything_ to detract from that huge ass. You say that like it’s a bad thing. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/24 "2010-08-07T02:33:52Z")
**spark** , detraction = good. Huge ass that needs its own zipcode = bad. Bad ass bad. Showing that bad ass bad ass in a g-string body suit and smiling = a cruel and unusual form of punishment. I _hate_ big fat asses like that. They always make me wonder how the hell they fit on a toilet. Plus they remind me of a doco I saw once where the person had to use a rag on a stick to wipe. Even a flower ain’t gonna _pretty_ that up… ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/25 "2010-08-07T02:40:12Z")
How did a thread about flowers in hair become a thread about dumping all over people with big asses? Oy. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/26 "2010-08-07T03:45:40Z")
> [@mariposalabrown](#): > > Both. I have bought fake flowers at the hobby store as well as just picking them. I use bobby pins. Also my answer. ---
**Author:** ![be\_bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@be\_bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/be_bright)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/27 "2010-08-07T05:11:37Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Picking a flower and giving it to a girl to put in her hair is the ultimate cheap date trick. Come across as a compelling romantic and save money at the same time! Not to some girls, though (myself included). What if there’s a BUG in the flower?! I’m no tomboy, but one thing I don’t understand about (most of) the rest of females is their affinity with flowers. Bouquets don’t impress me. They’re expensive–and then they die. Regarding the OP’s post…I think girls wear flowers in their hair because it’s pretty and feminine (at least we’re socialized to think so). ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/28 "2010-08-07T05:15:39Z")
Oh, I hate bugs. Especially if it was an earwig lurking in the flower and it crawled into your ear and first up on the menu was ear drum surprise. That would be awful. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/29 "2010-08-07T05:37:25Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > \*\*Girls who wear flowers behind their ears/in their hair… \*\* … are cute. Well, cuter than before anyway. Isn’t that enough reason? It’s one of those looks that doesn’t always work, but when it does, it works very well. ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/30 "2010-08-08T21:48:09Z")
Remember the Polynesian custom. If a girl wears a flower behind her right ear, then she is single. If she wears it behind her left ear, then she is taken. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/31 "2010-08-08T22:12:18Z")
Q: Is it ever appropriate, when a guy approaches a beautiful woman with flowers, to take just one out (before or after kissing her, YMMV) and put that one flower in her hair? (because I’m a guy & this guy doesn’t know these things…) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/32 "2010-08-08T22:50:44Z")
> [@JoelUpchurch](#): > > Remember the Polynesian custom. If a girl wears a flower behind her right ear, then she is single. If she wears it behind her left ear, then she is taken. What if she’s wearing one behind each?! ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/33 "2010-08-08T22:52:43Z")
Then she’s a swinger! ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/34 "2010-08-08T22:59:44Z")
I think it’s pretty hard to pull off a flower in your hair. It works at a wedding. Maybe a festival or a picnic or a beach. But for most people walking down the street, it ends up looking a bit silly. Especially those huge fake ones that you find at accessory shops. Or at least, _I_ would feel silly wearing one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/35 "2010-08-08T23:26:45Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Oh, I hate bugs. Especially if it was an earwig lurking in the flower and it crawled into your ear and first up on the menu was ear drum surprise. That would be awful. Well, I just got a whole lot less whimsical. I knew there was a reason for it before. I just didn’t know what it was. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/36 "2010-08-08T23:31:50Z")
Are these gentle people coming to San Francisco? Because summertime will be a love-in there. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/37 "2010-08-08T23:37:01Z")
> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > > [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > > > Oh, I hate bugs. Especially if it was an earwig lurking in the flower and it crawled into your ear and first up on the menu was ear drum surprise. That would be awful. > > Well, I just got a whole lot less whimsical. I knew there was a reason for it before. I just didn’t know what it was. For someone whose username is H\*\*effalump and Roo \*\*, I would think it would take a LOT to get rid of your whimsy! ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/38 "2010-08-09T00:06:37Z")
> [@be\_bright](#): > > > [@Rigamarole](#): > > > > Picking a flower and giving it to a girl to put in her hair is the ultimate cheap date trick. Come across as a compelling romantic and save money at the same time! > > Not to some girls, though (myself included). What if there’s a BUG in the flower?! > > I’m no tomboy, but one thing I don’t understand about (most of) the rest of females is their affinity with flowers. Bouquets don’t impress me. They’re expensive–and then they die. And that’s why I wouldn’t date you. 😛 I’ve come to realize extreme rationality can be a real turn-off. (of course I’m very rational myself, I just don’t want my date to be) ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/39 "2010-08-09T00:12:18Z")
I’ve been known to wear barrettes with very small silk flowers (like rosebud size, no bigger than the tip of my thumb) for special occasions like when I sing at weddings. I have a variety of colors that I can wire onto certain barrettes. It works for me, but then, I have a _ **huge** _ fat ass to distract people from. > [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > How did a thread about flowers in hair become a thread about dumping all over people with big asses? Oy. Because any thread about anything that women do is open ground for crass criticism of women’s bodies, which are, of course, solely intended for decorative purposes and must be aesthetically pleasing at all times. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415/40 "2010-08-09T00:41:16Z")
She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes And I knew without askin she was into the blues She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls, I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls. The Grateful Dead [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-who-wear-flowers-behind-their-ears-in-their-hair/549415.md?page=3)