At dinner in a restaurant tonight, I saw a gentleman wearing one of your normal (not sparkling) poppies. It was, as I had suspected, so much nicer than our flimsy little fabric poppies. Those have not changed in my lifetime, and people wear them only on Veterans' Day itself. The American Legion does still sell the poppies, but they are seen on fewer people than in decades past. One of those would look silly with a lovely brooch! The poppy factory the Queen visited should export some nice poppies to us.