ALVARADO, Texas -- Homecoming at Alvarado High School typically means hundred of senior girls decked out in colorful mums. But the five-foot, purple and white, life-sized 'Texas' mum Brittany Eicker ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — It is the most Texas mum you will ever see. Nancy Masden, mum-maker at Oh My Goodness Boutique in Corpus Christi, created a gigantic, possibly record-breaking 78-feet-long ...

Lewisville High School is poised to break the Guinness world record for the biggest homecoming mum. Just before sunset Friday, thousands of jubilant fans will pour into the Lewisville High School ...

Shiner St. Paul High School girl’s mum. While fewer than normal homecoming mums are being ordered during the pandemic, those that are being ordered are getting larger at Sweet Occasions. “It seems ...

Like bugs to a lantern, hundreds of San Benito Greyhounds fans were drawn to the lights of the Bobby Morrow football stadium on a warm Friday night in early October. For at least a mile out, cars were ...

In the heart of Texas, a tradition blossomed, one that encompasses the essence of the Lone Star State, where everything is, indeed, bigger. What started as a simple token of affection from a teen boy ...

The tradition of a homecoming mum is uniquely Texan. But it’s a large enough tradition to support an entire industry of small family businesses, some of which have been around for generations. On ...

A homecoming ribbon hangs off the mum of one of the Jesuit Rangerettes before a high school football game against Richardson Berkner on Friday, Oct. 22, 2021 at Postell Stadium in Dallas. (Jeffrey ...

Fall means football in the state of Texas. But in other circles, far from the gridiron, cooler temperatures also indicate a changing of the fashion guard. With a new season come new trends, and lately ...

"In Texas, homecoming mums are the perfect example of us wearing our hearts on our sleeves," said Amy Schultz, the woman who literally wrote the book on mums. "I think people who grew up with the ...