Your quinceañera is a very important event in your young life. It is the moment that marks your transition from childhood to youth, so it is not surprising that you want to look special when you celebrate it. A beautiful dress, perfectly groomed hair, a radiant smile on your face are just as important as the location and the guest list. You spend weeks, if not months, planning everything with your family, trying on different quinceañera dresses, putting together a perfect menu, and learning the steps of the first dance you are going to dance with your father. And then the big day arrives, the celebration flashes before your eyes and before you know it, the dance is over, the cake is eaten, and the next day begins like hundreds of days before.
Except when you wake up the day after your celebration, there’s a quinceanera dress hanging in your room and you’re considered a young woman. It’s wonderful to feel all grown up, but that costume you wore the night before, the dress you spent hours finding, trying on, picking and choosing is not something you’re going to wear again. You could hang it in the corner of your closet and maybe wear it every once in a while just for fun, but there are other, perhaps better, ways to wear your quinceanera dress. Just be sure to discuss your ideas with your mom first, as many of them involve scissors and parents don’t always like their kids cutting up important items.
One of the things you can do with your quinceanera dress is to cut it down the middle and use the top and bottom for different purposes. The beautiful and perfectly fitted corset of your dress can become a stand-alone garment, a top that you can wear with less elegant skirts or even jeans to dress them up. The full skirt of your quinceanera dress can be worn in many ways. You can make it into decorative throw pillows that will remind you of your wonderful day in a beautiful way; You can use the skirt fabric to add a lovely trim around your window or headboard. Since every quinceañera celebration generates so many photos, you can use the fabric from your dress to put together personalized photo albums or decorative photo frames that display your best shots from the night.
If you wouldn’t even think about using scissors for your quinceanera dress or don’t have the permission to do so, consider some uses for your dress as is. You can definitely use it as a costume next Halloween, dress up as a princess or a zombie quinceanera, and stored in a protective bag it can wait until you turn eighteen when you have every right to decide what to do with it. By then, you may want to cut it up and reuse the fabric, you may want to sell it to another happy quinceanera, or you may just decide to save it so that when your own daughter needs her quinceanera dress, she has a choice of what by then it will be. a vintage dress