wearing a poppy conventions?

[barmy]

When wearing a poppy for rememberance day, is it correct to have the green leaf pointing up or down. I notice on the BBC that allt he presenters have the leaf pointing up, but I have mine pointing down to cover the stem.

Is there a right/ wrong way?

Thanks

[smudge]

I usually wear mine how it comes out of the box, which is usually leaf up, or to the side. I also wear it on the left, closest to my heart & 'cos I'm left handed.

I don't think it really matters how you wear it, as long as it's on show for the support & in remembrance of the brave deserving people.

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[heathfield]

There's no need to cover the stem. When wearing a flower as a ''buttonhole'' it's a sign of good taste to have it pinned to the lapel, and not pushed through the actual buttonhole. With real flowers, the stem would normally be wrapped in foil to stop any moisture from staining the jacket, but this wrapping would still be showing.

[Lonnie]

The correct way, is to have the leaf at 11 0'clock, as that was the time the Armistice was signed, and even though, rightly, it nowadays signifies rememberance of the fallen of all wars, originally, it was just from the First World War.

[THECORBYLOON]

Scots Poppies have no four petals and no leaf so if you remove the leaf off the the one you have, problem solved.

[THECORBYLOON]

Apologies for the semi-gibberish but I have a sore throat...

[Lonnie]

A little bit of 'nice to know', The Armistice wasn't signed as I said at eleven am, it was signed at 0520, but the hostilities ceased at 11am.

[rachann]

The correct way to wear a poppy is.... with pride.

There is no correct position for the leaf and Scottish poppies come with no leaf.

The convention of women wearing them on the right hand side comes from widows wearing their deceased husbands medals following WW1.

[doonny]

Poppy should be worn with the leaf at 11am as it would be looking at a clock face from the front