Boutonnière

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A boutonnière (French: [bu.tɔ.njɛʁ]) or buttonhole (British English) is a floral decoration, typically a single flower or bud, worn on the lapel of a tuxedo or suit jacket. Traditionally and most simply, a boutonnière is a single flower, worn pushed through the lapel buttonhole (on the left, the same side as a pocket handkerchief). Today boutonnières are often instead pinned to the front of the lapel, and feature more than a single stem: leaves or accents, constituting a mini-bouquet, like a smaller corsage. See § Wearing for details and variations. While worn frequently in the past, boutonnières are now usually reserved for special occasions for which formal wear is standard, such as at proms and weddings. Women who wear jackets on these occasions may also wear boutonnières, but more typically a woman would wear a corsage. Nowadays, lapel pins are worn more often than flowers on business suits.

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