11.6.11

Poppies

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It’s November again, which means it’s the time of year where everyone wears one of these.

It’s a simple sign of respect and remembrance for the soldiers who fought in World War One. Also in buying on you’re giving money to The Royal British Legion, who help members of the armed forces and their families. Now around this time of year everyone on TV is expected to wear a poppy, even characters in soaps wear them. But in the last couple of years there’s been this trend where people don’t just wear the simple paper poppy, but wear these.

To which my response is: NO.

This is from Strictly Come Dancing, but these sparkly poppies have been popping up everywhere. And I just find this really disrespectful. Poppies are turning into a fashion accessory. I even found this article here showing pictures of celebrities wearing sparkly poppies and saying to “Get the Look”, like it’s talking about clothes or jewellery or something tiresome like that.

Poppies should be plain and simple and really cheap to make so that as much money as possible goes to charity, not a bloody fashion accessory to be discussed in women’s magazines.