The "damas" (maids of honor) go from the church to the reception in a Ford Explorer limousine at Ruby's "quinceañera," Huntington Park, California, 2001, Lauren Greenfield, Courtesy of Milwaukee Art Museum

The young quinceañera is seemingly always in a ball gown. She is in pink, green, blue or other pastel colour,...

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