Those going to San Francisco did it, and children have it right when they sit making daisy chains - flowers make divine accessories for the hair and can work very well as jewellery.

Flowers in many ways are like fruit – decorative, bursting with colour, fragrant and good for you. They are Mother Nature’s prettiest accessory. Women who wear flowers are confident, fun, and altogether glamorous. Think of seasonal flowers as trends that come and go, as styles to make your signature, like perfume.

 For the spring, pick from a fruity selection: apple blossom and cherry blossom and honeysuckle come into fashion. Daffodils, with their sunny disposition are planted so that they show their pretty faces and lilacs are also a lovely symbol of new life; 1940s women often wore a lilac on the lapels of their pelt and flowers do make a vibrant touch to an outfit. The post-modern twist to a little ‘lilac on the fur’ is most notably shown by Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw. Her extravagant fashion sense included an over-sized corsage that bounced along the city slicker streets of New York, becoming that staple part of the Fashionista’s wardrobe, like a new string of pearls...

Summer which (hopefully) will creep upon us over the next few months brings a new ‘range’ all very sweet-smelling. The classic rose, freesia, fuchsia, gardenias, sweet peas and the potent jasmine are all in the throes of exotic full-bloom. Slipping one behind your ear or planting one in the chic-backcombed chignon creates connotations of desirable Senortias hanging in the porches of Mexico. Or you could look like Carmen Miranda, a little lady with a larger-than life image bursting with va-va-voom. For the more demure, turn to the late, great and beautiful Billie Holiday, who wore the summer gardenia in her hair, all-year-round, making it her signature image on and off stage.

Dried, pressed flowers too can make a pretty pin. My grandmother – the chicest woman I know, and aptly named Violet – had flowers dried and   compressed in brooches that she wore with her Sunday best.

Finding all these flowers is easier said than done. Often, the most accesible flower shops are those by the station selling depressed looking carnations and tulips. These do not a glamour puss make. Try Interflora for ease and simple browsing, and flower delivery. Their flowers come in bunches, but the perk here is that you can leave the gardenias in a pretty vase and pluck a bloom as you leave for your party. Alternatively, Wild at Heart sells rare and single stems, that aren’t cheap, but the selections are varied.