This nosegay or tussie-mussie is a sweet scented, small flower bouquet made using vintage and newer flowers of silk, velvet, cotton and/or paper. It comes with a corsage pin if you choose to wear it on a scarf, lapel or hat. Since the flowers used are vintage millinery flowers, they may have imperfections (eg. stains, tears, thinning, etc.) Historical Background: The term nosegay arose in fifteenth-century Middle English as a combination of nose and gay (the latter then meaning…