[PapaBear3625]

The Quinceanera is more like a HUGE birthday party and celebrates girls turning 15. They have them in Florida and Texas...perhaps in other places too.

And we have "Sweet Sixteen" parties here too, which seems similar.

[nopardons]

Do girls still have "SWEET 16" birthday parties?

That started in the last few decades of the 19th century, because it was when a girl put her hair up and got to wear long skirts/dresses ( grownup clothes ), but I though that that petered out in the late 5p0s-very early '60s.