Shop owner Minerva Alvarez shows off a Mexican charro-styled quinceañera dress, one of the more popular dresses at Shelsye’s Bridal in Santa Ana.

Diana Ramoneda, 16, a dress model at Amaraby – one of the highest-end design houses in Mexico – and a future surgeon poses for a portrait at 15Fest, a quinceanera convention in Mexico City.

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 ...

Mexican girls dress up for Quinceanera PartyA woman gives the last touches to the dress of a 15-year-old girl as she gets ready to participate in the mass Quinceanera Party, in Mexico City ...

Her white dress—sewn in her mother’s Mexican hometown—spills over her chair like an oversized lampshade. The priest urges her to live as a daughter of God.