Spring has sprung so why not go green right down to your bra and panties with a floral design?

Floral bras are sexy and seasonal and will give your underwear the 'organic' look that is topical and tropical.

What makes a floral bra so sensual, so seductive? Could it be the language of flowers?

The secret meanings of floral designs that speak through the bra and says things you can only say in pictures, images and patterns?

Dilemma: a timid man is trying to figure out how to express to a woman he is interested in her

Dilemma: the woman is torn as to how to let him down gently.

Such dilemma's in Victorian times, such wishes and desires could have been solved without uttering a word.

How?

By using the language of flowers, the shy guy could have expressed his desire, and the reticent lady could have enjoined upon him she wished only friendship. Referred to as floriography, the Victorian language communicated by way of flowers expressed specific meanings to specific flowers, and even different meanings to different tones and hues and colours of flowers.

The Victorians had a secret language of floral signals. A person with a bouquet, referred to as a tussie-mussie, could send a complex message by composing the right selection of floral or plant symbols.

Case in point: a red rose in the language of flowers would say "I love you with a passion." If it was combined with trailing ivy and sweet pea, the bearer’s fidelity and shyness would be part of the compound message. If however the bouquet was one of pink roses, then the floral message meant mostly an offer of friendship.

The stop light that today means 'caution' in Victorian tussie-mussie message meant (in yellow carnations) a firm rejection.

"J'adore" or in english "I adore you" was signalled with sunflowers. Whereas a bunch of spider flowers secretly whispered , “Elope with me.”

The manner in which a woman accepted the floral bouquet also revealed a secret message. If, for example, she held the bouquet to her chest, revealing to the admirer, in the language of florals, that her feelings were not so keen as his were. But if the lady brought them to her lips, well then he could breathe easy because she was just as hot for him as he for her.

Tussie-mussie went beyond the parameters of just passion and love, because insult and vilification too were an art form within the language of flowers.

One man might have given the cold-shoulder to another’s manhood with, of all things, a handful of green grass, implying the other man was a homosexual. If a Victorian sent some garlic it signaled the receiver was thought to be malevolent. An orange lily? Well you are the enemy of the person who gives you such a flower.

Floral symbols like these were illustrated in books of the time, however they did not always concur vis a vis a flower’s secret meaning. Of special note was the daffodil which books sometimes connected to rebirth and books said were a message of death.

Pink roses, in a few floriographic dictionaries, meant a clandestine love, but for other such books, they indicated friendship.

So it seems, that it was of great import for couples to utilize the same set of symbols, lest misunderstandings occured.

This mysterious language of flowers was used in great frequency during the Victorian era, from about 1837 to 1901.