What do you do when you want to tell someone you’re smitten with them but you live in a society so repressive decorum prevents you from even speaking such things? Why, you can say it with flowers! And that’s just what people in the Victorian Era did.
# Summary
In this Short Stuff episode, Josh and Chuck dive into the fascinating hidden language of floreography, the Victorian-era practice of sending coded messages through flowers and their arrangements. They explore how everything from the type and color of flowers to which hand you used to accept them carried specific meanings, allowing people in restrictive high societies to communicate feelings and intentions they couldn't speak aloud. The episode reveals how this elaborate system actually had dozens of competing flower meaning guides, creating total confusion about what message you were really sending, and features plenty of witty banter between the hosts about all the possible romantic mix-ups that could have resulted.
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