Q&A for How to Wear a Remembrance Day Poppy (UK)

Choose a small to medium safety pin. Pin the safety onto your garment carefully (as safety pins can damage delicate fabrics), then push the stem of your poppy between the two bars of the safety pin. The petals should hold it in place.

You can attach a poppy to any scarf you are wearing. Put your scarf on, then pin it on or attach the poppy either where you scarf is tied, or looped, or on the top of either end of your scarf. Pinning a poppy to a silk scarf might damage it. Wool scarves are very easy to attach a poppy to, just push the plastic "stem" through the knitted fabric of the scarf. Your poppy might look silly just swing at the end of your scarf - you may not want to wear a poppy on the end of a scarf.

Pin your poppy to your tee shirt roughly where a typical logo would be embroidered or printed on the chest area of the tee shirt - image your tee shirt is a polo shirt with that famous crocodile logo on it and pin your poppy where the crocodile would be. Choose a slim, dressmaker's pin to avoid damaging your tee shirt.

It is traditional to wear poppies the UK in the lead up to November the 11th and on November the 11th. The 11th day of the 11th month is when the UK commemorate those who lost their lives serving in the armed forces. The poppy is symbolic of remembrance and worn for this purpose. Wearing a Poppy Appeal poppy from the 12th of November onwards could appear disrespectful, as if the wearing was not commemorating the 11th day of the 11th month. The poppy is less significant as a symbol after November the 11th.