Oh! So there's some protocol that we "can't" wear poppies before a certain date, is there?
Where?
They aren't tacky Christmas decs or Easter bunnies. There's no bad taste associated with remembrance 24 x 7 x 365.
Except telling people they "can't" or "shouldn't".
Some years ago I made a very poor watercolour of a Lanc taking off - I don't inflict it on anyone save my immediate family and visitors to our living room, but I do hang a poppy on the frame all year round. If I had it in me to do a better painting of a Lanc I might show it somewhere a little more proudly, and hang a poppy on the frame there too.
On another tack, my daughter currently works in Hong Kong and would like to wear a poppy, but she hasn't seen any poppy sellers. Does anyone know where she might find one in this so-recently-British ex-colony?