Posted by jinja on April 2, 2014, 8:02 pm, in reply to "Upside down"
That's the way corsages were often worn in the past, stems up, to keep the moisture in I suppose, and retard wilting. Now, of course, the stems of flowers in a corsage are sealed into a little plastic vial of water to keep them fresh for longer. And so corsages are worn with the stems down.