"This suit, the mariachi started wearing this probably about the 1920s when films started coming about, and you had all the Mexican icons, they would wear the cowboy suits. Before, the mariachi musicians, they would wear just kind of like a cloth, white cloth, simple sandals, very, very simple, very humble. But then they started mimicking the rancheras singers, so we adopted the traje de gala, which is characterized by the adornments, whether it be sewn in or the silver buttonry."