Boutonniere

[FedoraGent]

It's just a nice, classy embellishment. It really doesn't have to signify anything and it can be any color or any suitable type of flower.The picture of Bogart with the blue flower is great.
Maybe people just seemed to look at you differently because you knew there was something a little different about you? [huh]

Perhaps. Dunno.

 

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Case in point, yesterday I was walking down Market Street to the shoe shine stand and I stopped and bought a carnation for a Boutonniere sans green stuff. It was red and I added it to my lapel of my jacket. This time, I had very strange looks from both men and women like I had a third eye with a uni-brow.

Carnation colors actually carry some symbolism. This wikipedia article discusses their meaning:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation