The celebration of a girl's 15 th birthday is among the most cherished, and costly, cultural traditions in Mexico. But as with many things in this country, it's changing quickly But as she raked her ...

Minerva Alvarez learned to cut fabric as a middle-schooler in her native Cuernavaca, Mexico. She began making simple dresses in class and soon elevated to creating elaborate quinceañera designs. “It’s ...

More and more of Mexico’s coming-of-age quinceañera dresses are coming from China. They’re part of a flood of Chinese textiles that has undermined local companies and sparked job losses in Mexico’s ...

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QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) — For Hispanic Heritage Month, The Museum at Queens College has a special exhibition starting this week that honors the coming-of-age tradition for Latinas— quinceañeras. The ...

LA JOYA, Mexico – Looking overwhelmed by the attention, yet resplendent in an elaborate fuchsia dress and gleaming tiara, Rubi Ibarra celebrated her 15th birthday on Monday in a rural Mexican village ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Three large portraits hang in Roxanne Contreras's Tucson home. One pictures her and her two kids. The others are just of her daughter, Melina. All of them were taken for ...

DENVER—On the day she is to become a woman, Monica Reyes sits in front of the church for Mass. Her white dress—sewn in her mother’s Mexican hometown—spills over her chair like an oversized lampshade.