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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, left, and Curz Viridiana Fernandez, both cutting Quinceañeras gowns from appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, left, and Curz Viridiana Fernandez, both cutting Quinceañeras gowns from appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Kassandra Gonzalez, cutting a Quinceañeras clothes by appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Kassandra Gonzalez, cutting a Quinceañeras clothes by appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Appearance artist Tomás Benitez makes an acclimation to one of his Quinceañeras gowns modeled by Kassandra Gonzalez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Appearance artist Tomás Benitez makes an acclimation to one of his Quinceañeras gowns modeled by Kassandra Gonzalez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, left, and Curz Viridiana Fernandez, both cutting Quinceañeras gowns from appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, left, and Curz Viridiana Fernandez, both cutting Quinceañeras gowns from appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) A detail of the Quinceañeras clothes from appearance artist Tomás Benitez, and modeled by Kassandra Gonzalez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) A detail of the Quinceañeras clothes from appearance artist Tomás Benitez, and modeled by Kassandra Gonzalez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Appearance artist Tomás Benitez makes an acclimation to one of his Quinceañeras gowns modeled by Kassandra Gonzalez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Appearance artist Tomás Benitez makes an acclimation to one of his Quinceañeras gowns modeled by Kassandra Gonzalez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, from left, appearance artist Tomás Benitez, and Curz Viridiana Fernandez. Both Quinceañeras gowns were advised by Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, from left, appearance artist Tomás Benitez, and Curz Viridiana Fernandez. Both Quinceañeras gowns were advised by Benitez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Cruz Viridiana Fernandez cutting a Quinceañeras clothes from appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Cruz Viridiana Fernandez cutting a Quinceañeras clothes from appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, left, and Curz Viridiana Fernandez, both cutting Quinceañeras gowns from appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, left, and Curz Viridiana Fernandez, both cutting Quinceañeras gowns from appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, left, and Curz Viridiana Fernandez, both cutting Quinceañeras gowns from appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, left, and Curz Viridiana Fernandez, both cutting Quinceañeras gowns from appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, left, and Curz Viridiana Fernandez, both cutting Quinceañeras gowns from appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, left, and Curz Viridiana Fernandez, both cutting Quinceañeras gowns from appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, cutting a Quinceañeras clothes by appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, cutting a Quinceañeras clothes by appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Appearance artist Tomás Benitez with Melissa Blanco, left, and Sara Atehorua, both cutting atramentous gowns he designed.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Appearance artist Tomás Benitez with Melissa Blanco, left, and Sara Atehorua, both cutting atramentous gowns he designed.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, cutting a Quinceañeras clothes by appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Tatiana Saavedra, cutting a Quinceañeras clothes by appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Sara Atehortua cutting an atramentous clothes by appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Sara Atehortua cutting an atramentous clothes by appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Sara Atehortua cutting an atramentous clothes by appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Sara Atehortua cutting an atramentous clothes by appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Sara Atehortua cutting an atramentous clothes by appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Sara Atehortua cutting an atramentous clothes by appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
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(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
(For the Chronicle/Gary Fountain June 22, 2014) Appearance artist Tomás Benitez.
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The absolute dress for every 15-year-old princess
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HOUSTON — Back her daughter, Isabella, was built-in Yleana Rubin began to anticipate about the day her adolescent would about-face 15 to bandy her a affair aloof like the one her parents abiding for her back she was that age. And that moment assuredly came on November 23, 2013.
"It was a day abounding of emotions. I bethink it and I get aflame again. That day I cried back I saw her so happy," Rubin said. "We busy a limo that gave her and her associates a ride about Katy. They were alert to music and accepting fun. Again they were taken to the ballroom. It was a actual affecting anniversary and she afford tears of joy, too."
["1746"]Mary's Princess collection of Quinceanera dresses | Quinceanera ... | Lime Green Princess DressIn the Hispanic association the baronial dreams of abounding girls appear accurate back they are "quinceañeras" (when they about-face 15), which is a actual old attitude that Latino parents accept kept animate in the United States.
"It's an befalling to acquaint your babe to everybody and it marks the aeon back a babe becomes a woman. That's why this anniversary is so important in our culture," said Tomas Benitez, who has a appearance architecture flat in Bellaire Boulevard, area he has advised dresses for quinceañeras back 2007.
For Alex Treviño, buyer of the quinceañeras' dress boutique Glitter Designers, in the PlazAmericas Mall, this is the best important affair a ancestors can align for a 15-year-old girl.
"It's to bless that she ceases to be a babe to become a woman," Treviño said.It is a abundant affair in a amphitheater or in a ancestors home with alive music or a DJ, additional a limousine, a video and a appropriate menu. The quinceañera is consistently the centermost of absorption aloof as her claimed beauty, from the clothes to the hairstyle.
The parents and the babe should baddest the dress with a minimum of four to six months in beforehand to ensure that it is accessible for the day of the party. There are abounding shops in Houston that action acquittal plans.
StylesWhat is the ideal dress for a quienceañera? Every 15-year-old babe imagines the dress she will abrasion on that "great day" according to her aftertaste and personality, experts say.
"Each babe has her own appearance but the best important affair is that she can accurate herself through a acceptable design. I try to booty her animosity to the quinceañera's dress," said Benitez, who advertise his designs in a appearance appearance every year.
Throughout his able experience, Benitez has begin three dress styles that address to 15-year-old girls:
• Traditional. This is the archetypal angel cut dress with a corset, a large, beefy brim with a crinoline underneath. The admired colors are pink, ablaze dejected or lavender.
• Modern. This is a dress with added acute colors such as red, amethyst or adhesive green. The girls who like this appearance additionally like to let their acuteness fly, so their dresses should reflect that aspect of their personality, according to Benitez.
• Extravagant. This is the babe who brand to breach with attitude and leans against added alien things. She brand to amalgamate allegory colors, such as blush with black, red and atramentous or a adjudicator arrangement with red. Those are appealing affecting combinations that bout her style. She aloof brand to abduct the show, Benitez says.
Meanwhile, Treviño, from Glitter Designers, a abundance which opened in 2011 and has angled out to Dallas and Pasadena, additionally has his own allocation of quinceañeras' dresses:
• Typical. This is the Mexican-American babe who wants to highlight the traditions and ability of Mexico. For her, Treviño offers a three-piece dress: a amphitheater brim with metal buttons and little horses abstract on the advanced of the skirt, complemented by a corset and a abbreviate anorak with metal buttons as well.
• Sweet. This babe prefers soft-colored dresses. For her, Treviño offers a archetypal alleged Caramelo (Candy) in blush and excellent colors. It is a two-piece dress with a heart-shaped corset and a two-tone skirt.
• Rumbera (Rumba dancer). This is a 15-year-old babe who wants to ball all night. For her, Treviño has a dress with corset and a two-part skirt, one is disposable so that the babe can abrasion a lighter dress after on during the party.
Fashion colorsAccording to Benitez, the best fashionable colors during the summer for a 15-year-old babe are mint, lime, purple, blush and turquoise.
In the spring, the best fashionable colors were coral, afflict green, mint, babyish dejected and babyish pink, according to Treviño.
And Benitez says that during the abatement the best fashionable colors for quinceañeras will be white, purple, atramentous and turquoise, all combined. To those shades Treviño brand to add touches of silver, old rose and burgundy.
CostsHow abundant is an affected quinceañera's dress?
"A bartering clothes can amount amid $500 and $800," Benitez says. "But if it's a designer's dress, fabricated according to the aftertaste and admeasurement of the girl, again the amount is higher."
"The amount of a dress advised by me starts at $1,200. It all depends on what the chump wants and the akin of affluence she wants. I've awash dresses for $5,000", Benitez adds.
["713.92"]Channel Your Favorite Disney Princess for Prom Dance! | PINKY PINK | Lime Green Princess DressMeanwhile, Treviño indicates that his designs fit abounding budgets, starting with a archive dress for $500 and designs from his accumulating whose amount starts at $1,100, with an boilerplate amount of $1,500.
"We action a acquittal plan, so abounding bodies abode orders with six months to a year in advance. That way they accept added time to pay," he says.
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